Claim: Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo "raised the mortality rate from 65 to 87" and "used a 1994 annuity chart" to create the pension crisis.
Fact-check: Rhode Island union official Paul Valletta says big change in predicted mortality rate helped create pension crisis
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2011-11-06T00:00:00