AUGUSTA — Senator Dave Miramant, D-Camden, introduced Monday a bill to fix problems in the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MEPERS) Disability Retirement Program. The bill, LD 1644, “An Act To Improve the Disability Retirement Program of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System,” received a public hearing before the Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee. “The problems with the MEPERS Disability Retirement Program are very concerning and systemic,” said Sen. Miramant. “This is my second time proposing legislation to improve MEPERS disability retirement. Some of the reforms we have suggested have begun to be implemented, but the work is not done. We require state employees to lose Social Security and enroll in MEPERS, yet we are letting them down when they need help. We must ensure that this never happens again and that workers are able to access the benefits they are promised.”