Government employee unions gathered in Springfield earlier this year for a day of action in support of changing “Tier 2,” the state of Illinois retirement benefit for workers hired on or after Jan. 1, ...

An in-depth look into Illinois' pension problem.

With pension reform possibly within reach, there’s a Goldilocks problem for the state lawmakers setting plans to tackle Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension problem. Some fixes would be too small; ...

It now appears that up to 800,000 users may have been shown figures that were too generous, leaving some believing they were on course for the full state pension when they were not.

High volumes of customer calls, backlogs and complex requests blamed for shaky start to life on civil service pension scheme ...