Louisiana House Judiciary Committee advances bill to clarify Lafayette City Marshal salary
Louisiana House of Representatives
Sen. Gerald Bouderaux (D-Lafayette), Lafayette City Marshal Reginald Thomas and Joe Shumate, Jr. president of Louisiana City Marshals & City Constables Association, speak before the Louisiana House Judiciary Committee on May 13, 2021 about SB 120 regarding the salary of the Lafayette City Marshal.
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BATON ROUGE, La. â A bill by Sen. Gerald Boudreaux (D-Lafayette) that would allow the Lafayette City Marshal to keep court fees moved through the Louisiana House Judiciary Committee Thursday.
Only Lafayette and Shreveport are exempt from the current state law regarding fees collected by the marshal s office.
The Government s KiwiSaver moves will apply competitive pressure to funds market
14 May, 2021 01:54 AM
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Finance Minister Grant Robertson has announced a shakeup of Kiwisaver.
Jason Walls is a political reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjason.walls@nzme.co.nz@Jasonwalls92
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the Government s major KiwiSaver shakeup will apply competitive pressure to other private fund managers to slash their fees. I think and I hope that this will lead to a greater level of competition, and they will lead to a lowering of fees, he told media this morning.
He said that KiwiSaver fees have been too high for too long and the Government s move will help deliver a much-needed shakeup.
Changes to default providers won t lower KiwiSaver fees as Govt hopes, say experts
14 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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The number of KiwiSaver default providers will reduce from nine to six. Photo / Getty Images
Experts have poured cold water on the Government s hopes that a major shake-up to the KiwiSaver default providers will bring down fees across the industry. And the majority of those appointed as new default fund providers say the low fees on offer through their default schemes won t be applied to their other funds.
On Friday the Government announced the nine current default KiwiSaver providers would be slashed to six from December 1.