Month: August 2018

Thank you to our 2018 supporters!
We gratefully acknowledge all of our 2018 donors, big and small. Your donation makes it possible for us to do all the great work we do in protecting and promoting the retirement income security of workers, retirees and their families. We especially want to recognize our top “super” donors of 2018. Thank you to you all. […]

Interconnected Disconnections: When Former Employees and their Retirement Plans Can’t Find Each Other
By Emily Spreiser When I was in high school I was very lucky to be able to go on a school trip to France with a bunch of other American students. One day we were touring a market in in the South of France and, eager to practice what I had learned in French class, […]

Wall Street Journal article highlights “harsh” pension practice
By Karen Friedman This weekend’s edition of the Wall Street Journal features a front page article by Theo Francis highlighting pension plans’ practice of trying to recover money they have mistakenly paid their retirees, often years later when the retiree cannot afford to pay back the money. Although this practice, often called “recoupment,” has gone […]