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Baby Boomers Fear Retirement Years
Retirees and workers on the verge of retirement have many concerns about their continued financial security.
Retirement And The Recession: Savings Destroyed For One Out Of Four Older Workers, Says AARP Survey
Workers older than 50 are gloomy about retirement after getting beat up by the Great Recession, according to a survey released Tuesday by AARP’s Public Policy Institute.
Pension detectives help pin down retirement benefits
For 12 years, Joanne Parke was an auto delivery driver and yard foreman, helping shuttle hundreds of new Volkswagens, Porsches and Audis from the Port of Oakland. But 25 years later, when she applied for her Teamsters union pension, no one had heard of her.
Employees Win New Benefit Protections
A new Supreme Court ruling makes some of the most significant changes in laws governing employee benefits in nearly two decades, though groups representing employers and employees disagree over who really comes out the winner.
Don’t count on your employer for accurate pension info
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling sent an important reminder to retirees this week: you can’t necessarily rely on your employer for an accurate description of your pension benefits.
Workers pessimistic on retirement prospects
Only 78% of employees participate in a defined contribution plan when employers offer such plans, even though most workers consider a DC plan an important benefit, according to a survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies.
Read your pension’s paperwork
The U.S. Supreme Court made one thing clear in yesterday’s Amara v. Cigna decision: Employees are on their own to understand what their pension paperwork actually says.
How to Protect Your Corporate Benefits
It is no secret that corporations, over the last 20 years or so, have been reducing or eliminating corporate benefits such as pensions and health care. Corporations have the right to determine employee benefits. However, it is important for employees to take proper steps to protect the benefits they are entitled to. I will be […]
Federal worker pensions emerge as target in debt-reduction talks
The generous pension system enjoyed by millions of federal workers from clerks to senators and judges has emerged as a key target in negotiations between Vice President Biden and congressional leaders looking to restrain the growing national debt.
401(k) rights trumped by ERISA
Court rules that plan owners must get consent of spouse to pass wealth to children
Catholic Diocese of Wilmington returns to US court
Creditors, including lay employees, abuse survivors, object to reorganization plan
Company stock isn’t best bet for employees’ retirement
Nearly a decade after Enron’s collapse, many workers still haven’t learned one of that episode’s clearest lessons: Don’t bet your nest egg on the place you work.
