CT slashes more debt – but not from pensions

CT Mirror – Wednesday, September 17, 2025
By Keith M. Phaneuf

Though Connecticut’s successful slashing of its pension debt dominates the headlines, state officials and workers have collaboratively reduced another onerous burden dramatically over the past five years.

Connecticut had wiped out nearly one-third of the unfunded obligations involving its health care program for retired state workers entering last fiscal year — almost $7.4 billion since 2020, according to a new report from the legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis.

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