Claim: The status quo led the General Assembly to reduce pension payments four straight years starting in 2005, costing billions of dollars as the delay in contributions essentially borrowed from pension funds at a very high interest rate.
Fact-check: Gov. Rauner right on lawmakers' pension holidays
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Madeleine Doubek
Date published: 2017-02-17T00:00:00