american samoa government employees retirement fund
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government is currently proposing significant changes to its contribution rate to the Retirement Fund, aiming to adjust it to 8% for Fiscal Years 2026 and 2027.
In his letter addressed to the Senate President, Governor Pulaali’i Nikolao Pula...
Talofa lava to members of the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once reminded us:
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Throughout his life’s work, Dr. King also warned that the greatest tragedy...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Keniseli Lafaele has filed a complaint in the High Court of American Samoa against four members of the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) Board of Trustees, claiming that their actions are unlawful in their ‘attempt’ to remove him, a fellow...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Economic consultant Fuiavailili Keniseli Lafaele is urging caution over the American Samoa Economic Development Authority’s (ASEDA) plan to issue two new bond series totaling up to $65 million, citing the Territorial Audit Office’s FY2025 Local Budget Audit (Report 25-01...
Dear Fellow Citizens, Lawmakers, and Guardians of the Public Trust,
The recent House hearing, as reported by Talanei News, on the American Samoa Government’s $13.9 million debt to the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) marks an essential step in a long-overdue reckoning...
For far too long, the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) has operated without meaningful transparency or accountability. This op-ed presents my final public statement as a trustee, documenting not only institutional decay but also the systemic failures that demand...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Before Fuiavailili Keniseli Lafaele received formal notice of his removal from the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund board last Friday, he got a letter from the Chairman of the Board of Trustees Tuaolo M. E. Fruean denying his request to attend a...
Talofa Members & Employers,
I want to issue a clarification regarding a statement in my open letter dated March 5, 2025, referencing Governor Pulaali’i N. Pula’s speech on ASG’s $9 million debt to the Fund.
I previously suggested that the amount owed could be higher if the reported figure...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate unanimously approved in its third and final reading yesterday, a bill aimed at removing the existing 10% cap on investments by the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) within the Territory.
Last week, during a Senate Retirement...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government has notified its directors and agency heads that there is now a Voluntary Term Life Insurance Plan for all of the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund members, which by definition would include all ASG workers who are ASGERF members as well...