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Hartford Police Pension Fund

public plan · City of Hartford · Hartford, CT

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
66/100
Funding Status60% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$1.0B
Total Assets
$1.7B
Total Liabilities
$698.9M
Unfunded Liability
11,580
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Hartford Police Pension Fund is in good financial health at 60% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 60 cents in assets to cover it. As a public pension, benefits are typically backed by the taxing authority of the sponsoring government. Participants in this plan have relatively low risk of benefit reductions.

Year-by-Year Funding

YearAssetsLiabilitiesFunding RatioContributions
2025$1.0B$1.7B60.0%$68.4M
2024$1.0B$1.9B53.3%$67.5M
2023$1.0B$1.7B57.3%$54.6M
2022$945.2M$1.6B59.0%$62.4M
2021$881.2M$1.8B49.4%$69.1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Hartford Police Pension Fund is 60% funded, meaning it has 60 cents in assets for every dollar in future benefit obligations. This is below the 80% threshold actuaries consider healthy, and may require increased contributions.

Hartford Police Pension Fund has 11,580 total participants, including 4,400 active employees and 7,180 retirees currently receiving benefits.

Hartford Police Pension Fund is not covered by the PBGC. Benefits depend entirely on the plan's assets and the sponsor's ability to fund it.

The Pension Health Score (0-100, A-F) measures a pension plan's financial strength based on funding ratio (50%), funding trend over 3 years (30%), and PBGC risk level (20%). Higher scores indicate more secure retirement benefits.

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Pension Health Score is calculated from funding ratio, 3-year funding trend, and PBGC risk classification.