Federal law allows certain state and local governments to exclude employees from Social Security coverage if the employees are provided with a sufficiently generous pension. Approximately 6.5 million such workers were not covered by Social Security in 2018. Retirement systems for non-covered...

The report's key findings are:• Connecticut's pension systems for state employees and teachers face large unfunded liabilities, despite recent efforts by the State to fund.• A significant source of the problem is the "legacy debt" built up before the State began pre-funding its pensions in...