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Letters: State workers pay twice for pension fix

KRT

State employees pay taxes too.

That means they will have to pay twice when their contributions to their pensions go up to 9 percent and the state’s contribution goes up to 13.6 percent.

Elizabeth A. Russell

Columbia

This story was originally published March 12, 2017 at 6:14 PM with the headline "Letters: State workers pay twice for pension fix."

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