Pension Policy

The Pension Rights Center's staff has given numerous speeches, presentations, and testimony on pension policy. Below are the most recent policy presentations on important issues in pension policy. You may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these presentations.

• November 8, 2007: Professor Norman Stein's testimony [PDF] on behalf of the Conversation on Coverage (a PRC initiative) at a Congressional hearing on "Securing Retirement Coverage for Future Generations."

• October 30, 2007: Professor Norman Stein's testimony [PDF] on behalf of the Pension Rights Center at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the appropriateness of retirement plan fees.

• September 18, 2007: PRC Staff Attorney Rebecca Davis's testimony [PDF] before the ERISA Advisory Council Working Group on Participant Benefit Statements.

• June 28, 2007: Karen Friedman's speech on the introduction of S. 1725, the Restoring Pension Promises to Workers Act of 2007.

• May 9, 2006: Karen Friedman's speech at the IRS-ASPPA Mid-Atlantic Benefits Conference.
  
  
• February 27, 2006: Karen Friedman's statement at “Disintegrating Pensions National Crisis: Call to Action” News Forum.
  
  
• July 20, 2005: Karen Friedman's remarks [PDF] on hybrid plans at AARP's US-UK Dialogue on Pensions.
  
  
• July 6, 2005: John's Hotz's statement [PDF] on "Communications to Retirement Plan Participants" presented to the Labor Department's ERISA Advisory Council.