Blogs & Newsletters
Celebrate 50 Years with the Pension Rights Center
This year, the Pension Rights Center marks 50 years of standing up for workers, retirees, and their families. Since its founding, PRC has helped people secure the retirement benefits they earned, advanced stronger protections in federal law, and worked toward a future in which every American can count on a financially secure and adequate retirement […]
Mid America Pension Project Rescues Surviving Spouse’s Benefit
A recent success story from the Mid-America Pension Project shows why it often pays for people who can’t get the pension benefits they are owed to ask the Pension Counseling Projects to take on their fight. The Mid America Pension Project is one of six counseling projects supported by the Administration on Community Living that […]
Pension Action Center Helps Widow Receive Retroactive Benefits
Elaine contacted the Pension Action Center (PAC) for help in securing a survivor benefit. After her husband passed away, she tried to contact the plan to begin receiving her benefits. While the plan never denied that she was owed a benefit, it proved particularly challenging for Elaine to contact the plan for information or have […]
Western States Pension Assistance Project Helps Retiree Prove Eligibility for Pension
A 62-year-old Western States Pension Assistance Project (WSPAP) client, Mary, was preparing for retirement. She had earned a pension for her work at a Californian telephone company in the 1980s. Mary routinely checked her electronic statements to confirm that her monthly benefit would be around $250 per month. However, before reaching the normal retirement age of […]
A Tribute to Pension Rights Center’s Esteemed Board Member Daniel Halperin
The Pension Rights Center is deeply saddened by the unexpected death of our long-time friend, colleague, and esteemed board member, Daniel I. Halperin. He was 89. The chair of the Pension Rights Center board, Nancy Altman, said “He was a giant of a man who will be dearly missed. Not only was he a decades-long […]
DOL Needs to Strengthen Plan Disclosure Notice Requirements
By David Brandolph A recent New York Times (NYT) article demonstrates why, in this age of online accounts, it’s so important to have and retain paper copies of our financial statements and documents, including retirement plan disclosures. In the article, columnist Tara Siegal Bernard fielded a question from a woman living in Colorado who lost […]
Spring Newsletter
Save the Date: the PRC is Celebrating its 50th Anniversary For five decades, the Pension Rights Center has helped workers and retirees secure their earned retirement benefits and championed improvements to our nation’s private sector retirement system. The Center will celebrate this milestone in Washington, DC on November 5th at the Planet Word museum in […]
State Auto-IRA Programs Boosting Creation of Small-Employer Plans
By David Brandolph Over the past decade, many states have started mandatory auto-IRA programs to give private-sector workers whose employers don’t sponsor a retirement plan an opportunity to easily save for retirement at their workplace. A study published by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College by Adam Bloomfield, Manita Rao and Sita Slavov, […]
Happy Valentine’s Day from the PRC
Every year on Valentine’s Day, we write a love letter to all our donors. This Valentine’s Day is extra special, because 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the Pension Rights Center. For a half century, we’ve been working to protect and promote the retirement income security of American workers, retirees, and their families—all thanks to the generous supporters […]
Western States Pension Assistance Project Helps Retiree Receive Earned Benefits
Henrietta, an older adult living in California, worked at a telecommunications company for ten years and left the company with a vested retirement benefit. However, when Henrietta applied for retirement at age 65, she was told by the plan administrator that they would not distribute her benefit because of an IRS levy letter. Even though […]
Don’t Look Now, But Financial Scammers Are Targeting You
By David Brandolph Last July, The Independent (UK) reported a story in which a Florida woman, Sharon Brigthwell, got a call from a number that appeared to be from her daughter. When Brightwell answered, a frantic voice identical to her daughter’s said that she had been arrested after hitting a pregnant woman with her car […]
Happy Holidays from the PRC
While our nation faces a number of economic challenges, the Pension Rights Center continues, with singular focus, on our mission to improve retirement income security, particularly for low- and moderate-income workers. For almost fifty years, the PRC has been a nationally recognized “consumer watchdog” that defends and advocates for the retirement income rights and […]
