SENATOR KUSHNER HONORED BY AARP

SENATOR KUSHNER HONORED BY AARP

State Senator Julie Kushner (D-Danbury) was presented today with a 2025 AARP Legislative Achievement Award for her work last year to strengthen the enforcement of the state-run, auto-enrollment retirement savings program for private-sector employees who don’t already have access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan.

Launched in April 2022, MyCTSavings is a new Individual Retirement Account (IRA) savings option for over 600,000 private-sector workers in Connecticut. Overseen by the Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller, MyCTSavings requires all businesses with five or more employees that don’t already offer a qualified retirement plan to offer the MyCTSavings plan to their employees. Those that don’t offer the plan now face increased financial penalties.

“I’m a member of AARP too, and I just want to say that I know how important the AARP is, and the work that you all do up here at the Capitol is critical. AARP brings something to legislative debates that no one else can bring: you have experience, you have a story to tell, and you have wisdom,” Sen. Kushner told her AARP supporters. “When you’re up here lobbying, you get really energized by what you’re doing. I appreciate you and I want you to know you make a real difference.”

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