April 20 was a historic day for us. We attended the Assembly
Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security to
speak in support of our sponsored death benefit equity bill, and
we were there when the bill passed out of committee for the first
time.
Raising the death benefit to parity with faculty has fallen short
in nearly a dozen previous attempts. The increase contained in AB
1878 would provide survivors of classified staff more money for
the funerals of their deceased loves ones by increasing the death
benefit for classified employee members of CalPERS.
