One Goal of the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) Was

question 33

Multiple Choice

One goal of the deferred retirement option plan (DROP) was to

• A) keep Dallas police officers and firefighters working on the job instead of retiring and collecting their pension after 20 years of service.
• B) allow state employees to privately invest their retirement savings rather than pay into a state-run pension account.
• C) allow firefighters and police officers in the large cities to delay retirement to 30 years of service, but receive a bigger pension.
• D) encourage teachers to work for more than 20 years to receive a larger pension from the state.

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