{"id":877128,"date":"2026-10-10T05:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877128\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:38:28","slug":"developing-now-maryland-pension-system-lacks-funds-amid-stability-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877128\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING NOW: Maryland Pension System Lacks Funds Amid Stability Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (WBFF) \u2014 Questions are being raised about the future stability of Maryland&#8217;s pension system after a new report reveals it does not have enough funds to cover future payouts.<\/p>\n<p>A recent analysis finds Maryland&#8217;s retirement system has only three-quarters of the funding needed to meet all pension obligations to retirees. This shortfall in pension funds points to a significant gap that could impact state finances and the ability to pay out promised benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Portnoy, Investigative Journalist with Open the Books joined Fox45 to weigh in on the impacts it could have for taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DEVELOPING NOW: Maryland Pension System Lacks Funds Amid Stability Questions\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/4b65144c-bf57-4e7a-ac5e-dbd7037a8ce4-b0d88c3f045444dfbc2327ac5ec8069e.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING NOW: Maryland Pension System Lacks Funds Amid Stability Questions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (WBFF) \u2014 Questions are being raised about the future stability of Maryland&#8217;s pension system after a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-877128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}