BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A bill that would provide a cost-of-living adjustment to state retirees passed the House 93-2 and now heads to the Senate.
House Bill 23 by Rep. Tony Bacala would give state retirees over 60 a 2% increase on the first $81,000 they receive from their pension every year.
Carl Grotten, who worked for the Department of Transportation for over 30 years and retired nearly 13 years ago, said prices have risen significantly since then, but he’s only gotten a pension increase once in that time…