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Closing a Broken Pension Promise | Milwaukee News
Milwaukee County’s long-neglected OBRA Plan, meant to exempt seasonal workers like lifeguards from Social Security taxes, is finally being shut down — but not before a decades-old mess leaves hundreds unpaid and costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands annually. Supervisor Sheldon Wasserman’s “soft close” plan aims to transition eligible workers to reliable Social Security benefits, after years of bureaucratic neglect and impossible tracking for teen-aged workers who vanished into the ether. It’s time to fix a broken promise — and lighten the load on a pension office drowning in bigger issues…
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