{"id":286371,"date":"2026-09-15T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286371\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:36:10","slug":"retired-public-pa-employees-to-receive-cost-of-living-pension-adjustment-for-first-time-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286371\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired public Pa. employees to receive cost-of-living pension adjustment for first time in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 For the first time in more than two decades, some retired public employees in Pennsylvania will have their pensions adjusted for the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the adjustment into law during a special ceremony Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He said it&#8217;s a long-overdue move that will help more than 60,000 public employees \u2014 like teachers, local law enforcement, and firefighters \u2014 who haven&#8217;t seen their pensions adjusted for the rising cost of living since the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truth is the benefits in that pension were not keeping up with the cost of living, especially in recent years,&#8221; Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve basically lost close to 50% of the value of that pension just because the pension has stayed static while costs have gone up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only public employees who retired on or before July 1, 2001, are eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Harrisburg lawmakers passed the adjustment as part of the state&#8217;s budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Retirees can expect the first adjusted payment this month, retroactive to July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 For the first time in more than two decades, some retired public employees in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52,451,69,71,70,7174],"class_list":["post-286371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cost-of-living","tag-governor-josh-shapiro","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}