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Retirement Savings Plan Provisions on Capitol Hill
By Jane Smith Among the many year-end bills that are circulating in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are a number that include fixes for Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k)-type retirement savings plans. Some of the fixes are found in several bills; others are in just one of the bills. The bills are […]
Know Your Agencies #4: What Parts of the Government Regulate Retirement, and How they Can Help
By Emily Spreiser Post 4 of 5: agencies regulating retirement benefits for government employees The Pension Rights Center is located in Washington, D.C., where people regularly joke about how the government is made of “alphabet soup” because it consists of so many different agencies that we refer to by different combinations of letters. Sometimes figuring […]
Know Your Agencies #3: What Parts of the Government Regulate Retirement, and How they Can Help
By Emily Spreiser Post 3 of 5: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) The Pension Rights Center is located in Washington, D.C., where people regularly joke about how the government is made of “alphabet soup” because it consists of so many different agencies that we refer to by different combinations of letters. Sometimes figuring out which […]
Know Your Agencies #2: What parts of the government regulate retirement, and how they can help
By Emily Spreiser Post 2 of 5: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) The Pension Rights Center is located in Washington, D.C., where people regularly joke about how the government is made of “alphabet soup” because it consists of so many different agencies that we refer to by different combinations of letters. Sometimes figuring out which […]
Know Your Agencies #1: What parts of the government regulate retirement, and how they can help
By Emily Spreiser Post 1 of 5: Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) The Pension Rights Center is located in Washington, D.C., where people regularly joke about how the government is made of “alphabet soup” because it is comprised of so many different agencies that we refer to by different combinations of letters. Sometimes figuring out […]
Time for Select Pension Committee to Shine as Midterms’ Afterglow Dims
By David Brandolph With the 2018 midterm elections mostly in the rear-view mirror, it’s time for a special bipartisan congressional committee on pensions to complete its mission and come up with a comprehensive and fair solution that rescues financially struggling plans, helps save the federal agency backstopping pensions, and protects the hard-earned benefits owed to […]
Retirees demand candidates save their pensions
By David Brandolph Political candidates vying for office in the midterms and beyond need to pay attention to fixing a key under-the-radar economic issue that has energized hundreds of thousands of committed working class voters concentrated in key battleground states, including Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. These voters are retired truck drivers, mineworkers, iron workers, and […]
Retirees fear permanent Halloween horror if Congress fails to save pensions
By David Brandolph Ghosts and goblins can be scary, but this Halloween tens of thousands of retirees across the country are counting on a special under-the-radar congressional committee to help them avoid the frightening prospect of losing their retirement benefits due to a pension plan insolvency crisis. Congress’ failure to act would also have horrific […]
Proposed legislation would provide new protections for women
By Jane Smith Our retirement system is based on the notion that most people work full-time throughout their lives. This is a concept that has framed the rules for retirement plans. However, a lifetime of full-time work is not the common practice for many women. As Senator Patty Murray documents in the “Findings” section of […]
Pension cuts law makes mockery of American democratic principles – Retirees to use democratic processes to fight back
By David Brandolph The idea of one person, one vote, is a core principle of American democracy, and, consistent with this tenet, millions of citizens across the nation are expected to exercise their right to vote in elections taking place in the next few weeks. At about the same time, workers and retirees in a […]
Are you a pension attorney? Join our network!
By Karen Racowsky As the Pension Rights Center’s Staff Attorney, I am usually on backup phone duty when Operations and Referrals Manager, Kyle Garrett, is at lunch or on another call. Since Kyle is in charge of most of our intake, when he’s busy, I am usually the one who talks to retirees who aren’t […]
The Joint Select Committee wants to hear from you
By Emily Gilbert We are quickly approaching the end of September and the deadline for stakeholders to submit their comments to the Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans. The committee was formed as part of the bipartisan budget agreement approved by Congress in February of this year, and they are tasked with […]
