| SPRINGFIELD, IL – State Rep. Elaine Nekritz (D-Northbrook) recently accepted a volunteer appointment to Governor Quinn’s newly formed bipartisan pension panel tasked with reviewing and making recommendations on the state’s pension system.
“I have always been an outspoken advocate of fiscal responsibility and transparency, especially when it comes to our pension system,” Nekritz said. “I look forward to this opportunity to save the state money by closing abusive loopholes in the existing system, and to make sure that the public interest is being served.”
This new panel will be made up of lawmakers, union groups and other stakeholders to look at how state pensions are awarded. Recent news reports have uncovered cases of private employees receiving public pensions through Illinois’ public universities, despite not working on campus, and lobbyists receiving state teacher pensions after substitute teaching for only one day.
Rep. Nekritz will also be promoted to the Chair of the Personnel and Pensions Committee in the Illinois House of Representatives, effective early next week, where she will continue to work on legislation related to reforming pension policies. She was previously the Vice-Chair of the committee.
“There are many honest, hard-working people in our state who don’t deserve to suffer at the hands of a few crooks who cheated the system,” Nekritz said. “My top priority will be to work together across party lines to improve the system’s efficiency and prevent fraud.”
For more information, please contact Rep. Nekritz’s constituent service office at (847) 257-0450.
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