Sunday, August 18, 2013

Supreme Court yet to rule on legality of ‘retirement tax’ for school employees

Posted on 08/13/13 at 2:20pm
It’s not yet known when — or if — MEA members will receive refunds of a “retirement tax” imposed upon them by the state Legislature.
Teachers and education support professionals across Michigan are waiting anxiously for the state Supreme Court to take action on a lawsuit brought by MEA challenging the 2010 law, which requires school employees to pay an additional 3 percent tax for retiree health insurance.
Passed by the Legislature in May 2010, Public Act 75 of 2010 required that all school employees pay an extra 3 percent of their compensation into a fund for retiree health insurance — with no guarantee that the benefits will be available to them upon retirement.
On June 11, 2010, five MEA members filed a lawsuit, McMillan v. Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System, alleging that Public Act 75 violated school employees’ federal and state constitutional rights by impairing the contract formed when the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System was set up in 1980.
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