Retirement news roundup: articles you may have missed!
By Emily Gilbert It can be hard to keep up with the news, especially during the holiday season. Here’s a roundup of some of the best retirement news articles we’ve seen over the past month: For American Workers, 4 Key Retirement Issues to Watch in 2019 (The New York Times) New York Times reporter Mark […]
Comments to the Department of Labor on Proposed Exemption Involving Retirement Clearinghouse, LLC
On January 10, 2019 the Pension Rights Center submitted comments to the Employee Benefits Security Administration’s Office of Exempt Determinations (OED) concerning a proposed exemption to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA. The application for the exemption was submitted by the Retirement Clearinghouse, LLC (RCH) to permit the imposition of a fee to certain participant […]
For American Workers, 4 Key Retirement Issues to Watch in 2019
It’s going to be a busy year in Washington and state capitals for policymakers working to improve the retirement security of millions of Americans.
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 […]
Worried about a missing pension or 401(k)? Here’s where you can get help
Randy Sigley, 63, who grew up in West Virginia, remembers that jobs were hard to come by in the mid-1970s so he headed to Ohio to work in a factory making concrete pipe.
Whither the American pension?
The sudden erosion of pension benefits for 1,100 former employees of the old St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady is a scenario that isn’t supposed to happen.
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 […]
