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Retirement Savings Plan Provisions on Capitol Hill

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. More...

Know Your Agencies #4: What Parts of the Government Regulate Retirement, and How they Can Help

Post 4 of 5: agencies regulating retirement benefits for government employees

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Know Your Agencies #3: What Parts of the Government Regulate Retirement, and How they Can Help

Post 3 of 5: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)

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Know Your Agencies #2: What parts of the government regulate retirement, and how they can help

Post 2 of 5: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

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Know Your Agencies #1: What parts of the government regulate retirement, and how they can help

Post 1 of 5: Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

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Time for Select Pension Committee to Shine as Midterms’ Afterglow Dims

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 and active workers.  

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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.

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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.

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Retirees demand candidates save their pensions

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.

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Pension Rights Center Aims to Protect the Retirement Security of Millions of Americans Through Resources and Advocacy

In a Nutshell: Pensions help supplement the Social Security income of millions of retirees each year and were supposed to be paid out in full when a worker reached retirement. However, many workers who are owed benefits have found them dramatically reduced, or denied altogether. More...

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