PRC In the News
09/30/14|Bloomberg BNA's Pension & Benefits Reporter

PBGC Proposal to Track De-Risking Plans Seen by Pension Rights Center as Good Step

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s recent request for comments on a proposal to require companies making pension risk-transfer offers to their employees to report such offers to the PBGC is aimed at helping the agency determine its future liabilities, but the information may also prove useful for the public, a spokeswoman for the Pension Rights […]

PRC In the News
09/19/14|Investopedia

Retirement Plans For All? These States Say ‘Yes’

The federal government has been looking to introduce legislation designed to help workers save for retirement if they aren’t covered by an employer-provided pension plan or retirement savings plan. In the meantime, many states are taking up the charge.

PRC In the News
09/18/14|Insurance News Net

Broad-Based Coalition Pushes For Updates To Retirement-Plan Advice

A broad-based coalition of labor unions and consumer protection groups has reiterated its support for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to update, strengthen and clarify rules around advice provided to workers saving through retirement plans.

Comments & Letters
09/17/14

Group letter to Congress in support of a strengthened and updated fiduciary rule (September 17, 2014)

The Pension Rights Center, along with 43 other organizations, sent the letter below to every member of Congress, expressing support for updated and stronger rules to protect people with retirement plans and individual retirement accounts from conflict-ridden investment advice. The letter calls on the Department of Labor to proceed with the rule-making process. September 17, 2014 […]

PRC In the News
09/09/14|Bloomberg BNA's Pension & Benefits Reporter

ERISA Has Protected Participants, but Challenges Remain

Joe Lustig of Bloomberg BNA asked Karen Ferguson about the effect of the passage of ERISA in September 1974. Ferguson is director of the Pension Rights Center and a longserving member of the Benefits Practice Center Pension & Benefits Advisory Board.

Blogs & Newsletters
09/05/14

Happy 40th, ERISA!

Forty years ago this week, bell-bottom jeans were still in style, the Vietnam War was coming to a close, and Watergate was still riveting the nation. Against this backdrop of social unrest, there was also a focus on broken pension promises. Back then, tens of thousands of people were losing their pensions because few laws […]

PRC In the News
09/02/14|BenefitsPro

ERISA’s mid-life crisis

On its 40th birthday, plans sponsors and participants find plenty to be unhappy about.

PRC In the News
09/01/14|Pensions & Investments

ERISA at 40

The landmark legislation that promised security in retirement has fallen far short of its expectations