By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Parts two and three of an Associated Press investigative series about an old pension plan for law enforcement officers and firefighters describe how medical expenses for some retirees are stressing the budgets of local governments and disability payments continue with scarce scrutiny.
News reporter Mike Baker writing in the Yakima Herald-Republic offers an examination into the LEOFF-1 – Law Enforcement Officers’ and Firefighters’ Retirement System Plan 1 – a plan closed to new members after 1977, but which continues as a huge financial burden.
Read part two here, and part three here
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Read part one here