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Pension Counseling and Information Program

Pension Counseling and Information Program

Learn how the pension counseling projects help clients obtain their retirement benefits.Watch the video.
The facts about church pension plans

The facts about church pension plans

Employees covered by church pension plans are denied basic protections provided to all other private-sector workers.Learn More.
Questions about IRAs?

Questions about IRAs?

How much can you contribute to an IRA? What's the difference between a Traditional and Roth IRA?Read our IRA fact sheets to find out.
Lump sum or annuity?

Lump sum or annuity?

Many retirees are being asked to make a critical decision about their retirement security.Read the fact sheet.

Latest News

PRC statement on protecting retirees when making reforms to the multiemployer pension system (06/12/2013)

The Pension Rights Center submitted a statement to the Subcommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the House Education and Workforce More...

A Paycheck's Impact on Retirement Income Benefits

Returning to work can affect Social Security benefits and pension payments, but may also let you turbocharge your nest egg.

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PRC statement to the ERISA Advisory Council on lost participants and lost plans (06/04/2013)

PRC Policy Analyst Jane Smith testified before the ERISA Advisory Council on helping pension plans find missing participants and vice versa. More...

Seniors Warned, Think Twice Before Selling Pension

The practice of retirees selling their pensions for a lump sum has drawn U.S. regulators' attention, with two government watchdogs this month warning consumers about some of the firms that engage in the practice.

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Church pension plan status being tested by IRS, class-action lawsuits

The IRS' long-term trend of allowing church-affiliated defined benefit pension plans to be exempt from federal pension rules could reverse course after an unusual decision by the agency and a flurry of lawsuits.

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Hallelujahs ring after IRS reverses church pension rule

The Internal Revenue Service may be having a bad week, but Mary Rich isn't complaining about the taxman. The former nurse and hospital executive recently won a 10-year battle to get the IRS to reverse a ruling that would have cost her and her husband, Riz Corpuz, $2,500 a month in pension benefits from their former employer, the now-defunct Hospital Center at Orange (HCO) in New Jersey.

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Groups Give Early Praise to DOL ANPRM On Lifetime Income as a ‘Good First Step’

The Department of Labor’s recently issued advance notice of proposed rulemaking that would require lifetime income illustrations to be included on pension benefit statements is a "good first step" toward furthering retirement income education, retirement industry groups told BNA in a series of interviews.

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PBGC Reverses Prior Position as It Agrees To Pay Benefits for Shuttered Hospital’s Plan

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced May 10 that, in a reversal of a prior position, it would pay the pension benefits for more than 800 former employees of a New Jersey hospital center that closed in 2004.

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