GERS Chair Calls for Senate to Act

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GERS Chair Calls for Senate to Act

The Government Employees’ Retirement System board of trustees has tried since 1999 to motivate Virgin Islands senators to do something to save the retirement system, but, since then actions have only nibbled at solving a financial catastrophe.

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