MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Public Employees Insurance Agency spent the month of November traveling across West Virginia to outline its proposed financial plan for Fiscal Year 2027.

By the time the final hearing concluded recently, after stops in Wheeling, Beckley, Martinsburg, Charleston and Morgantown, the message from public employees and retirees had grown unmistakably clear: frustration is deepening, patience is thinning, and many feel the state is failing those who dedicated their careers to public service.

At every hearing, PEIA officials presented the same numbers, projections and statutory explanations.

Director Brent Wolfinbarger and CFO Jason Hawk opened each session by highlighting the agency’s exceptionally low overhead. Ninety-six point sixty-eight percent of all premium reven

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