Tobben Works With Firemen’s Retirement System and St. Louis City for New Solutions to Pension Issues

Under a new proposal being considered by the St. Louis Aldermanic Council, St. Louis City firefighters may have opportunities other than full disability due to injuries on the job. Retraining may become an option.

Dan Tobben has been working to help author the bill, according to stltoday.com.

Moreover, said Firemen’s Retirement System attorney Dan Tobben, whose office wrote much of  the bill, the education component will get disabled firefighters back into the  workforce.

“One of the big problems in America now is there are too many people getting  checks and not enough people working,” Tobben said. “This is a version of that.  We’re trying to get people to be back gainfully employed in the workforce.”

And while city leaders have consistently called the firefighter pension fund  a growing crisis, Tobben said he doesn’t believe it is as badly underfunded as  the city makes it out to be.

Read more … stltoday.com

10/13/11 5:37 PM

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