01/25/2012 | Reuters
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, known as ERISA, regulates most private-sector pensions. But it has always exempted plans operated directly by churches for their clergy and employees to make it easier for the churches to operate their plans.
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01/22/2012 | Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)
Tens of thousands of current and former employees at scores of religiously affiliated institutions across the country face the same fear, as nonprofits increasingly seek refuge in "church" pension plans to escape onerous financial obligations, according to Eric Loi, an attorney at the Washington D.C.-based Pension Rights Center.
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01/12/2012 | Time
One of the most widely dispensed, and universally accepted, pieces of financial advice is that you should contribute at least enough to your 401(k) to get the full match from your company. If you don’t, so the wisdom goes, you will be giving up free money. Well, it turns out that money isn’t exactly “free.” In a sense, it’s actually coming right out of your paycheck.
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01/09/2012 | Pensions & Investments
Legal exemptions that allow church-affiliated organizations to sidestep ERISA protections for their defined benefit pension plans increasingly are being used for less-than-holy purposes...[NOTE: A slightly different version of this article appears in Business Insurance.]
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01/06/2012 | Chicago Tribune
With his 65th birthday approaching, Richard Zimmerer started making phone calls about a pension from a job he held until his mid-40s.
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12/27/2011 | Reuters
I asked top retirement and aging policy experts this question: "If you could pose one question in a presidential debate to the Republican and Democratic nominees, what would it be?"
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12/17/2011 | National Journal
Stressed-out Americans over 50 wonder if they’re ever going to be able to retire. They worry that the Great Recession will have a lasting impact on their security.
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12/15/2011 | National Journal
Saving for retirement used to be as simple as showing up for work. Now it’s rife with contingencies—and success is all on you.
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12/15/2011 | Huffington Post
You may not know it, but millions of Americans are owed money from long-forgotten government payments, stock sales, bank accounts and other lost accounts.
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12/15/2011 | Wall Street Journal
The recent bankruptcy filing by American Airlines' parent, AMR Corp., cast clouds over the best-laid financial plans of many of the carrier's employees. Among the issues up in the air: pensions, benefits and job security.
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