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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plans - policy Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines American Workers Shifting Their Plans and Expectations for Retirement (PDF) Florida Agency Says Legislators Should Consider Increase in Required Employee Contributions to Pension Fund Houston Sues Firefighters Pension Board to Open Its Books [Guidance Overview] A Bridge Too Far: Early Retirement Exception from 10% Tax Was Available from Participant's 401(k), But Not After IRA Rollover Ohio Senate Passes Public Pension Reform; Ohio House to Act This Summer [Opinion] Ohio Public Retirement Systems Need Overhaul, Not More Tweaks Auditor: San Diego Pension Initiative Overstates Savings Considerations in Preparing Disclosure in Official Statements on a Government Bond Issuer's Pension Funding Obligations (PDF) Is Stock Market Recovery Providing Light at the End of the Tunnel for State and Local Pensions? Getting Young Workers to Save: Selling Confidence in the Future [Opinion] PBGC: Protector or Predator? [Opinion] That Which is Unsustainable Will Go Away: Pensions [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice of Meeting of Advisory Group for the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division (PDF) California State Workers Might Face Shorter Work Weeks and Less Pay But No Adverse Effect on Pensions Retirement Readiness Crisis Spurs Interest in Government-Managed Pension Plans for Participating Private Employers [Opinion] Text of Letter to Congress by American Benefits Council and Others, Urging DB Funding Interest Rate Stabilization (PDF) GAO Testimony on Unemployed Older Workers Facing Long-Term Joblessness and Reduced Retirement Security Many Experience Challenges Regaining Employment and Face Reduced Retirement Security New York City and State Pension Fund Chiefs Sing Praises of DB Plans and Offer Reforms [Guidance Overview] Roth IRA Was Not Eligible Shareholder of S Corporation ERISA Advisory Council to Examine Disability Coverage, Retirement Income and Beneficiary Designations (PDF) Federal Government Rolling Out Roth Option to 3.3 Million Employees This Week A False Objection When Public Employers Consider a Switch from DB Plan to DC Plan: 'GASB Won't Let Me' (PDF) Can Part-Time Retirement Save the U.S. Postal Service? [Opinion] 401(k)s Are Too Risky for Retirement [Opinion] Time to Control Runaway Military Personnel Costs Investment Advisers Often Tell Customers What They Want to Hear, Tout Higher-Fee Products, Finance Professors Conclude Reinhart Employee Benefits Update, April 2012 (PDF) Governmental Pension Plans: Can Peter's Sponsor Borrow From Peter To Pay Peter? California Counties Deciding to Stop 'Picking Up' Employee Pension Contributions How Is Economic Hardship Avoided by Those Retiring before the Social Security Entitlement Age? Virginia Governor Wants Mandatory Employee Contribution Requirement for Legislators' Pensions Road Trip: Traversing the Country in a Yellow VW Bus to Advocate 401(k) Reform Kansas Senate Endorses New Cash Balance Plan for State Employees [Opinion] Text of Comments by Eight Women's Organizations and the Pension Rights Center on Proposed IRS Regs for Lifetime Retirement Income Options (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Notice Suggests Changes to Normal Retirement Age Rules for Governmental Plans (PDF) Louisiana Legislators Decide Switch from DB to 401(k) for State Employees Might Be More Expensive Overall Retirement Issues Particular to Women: Patterns of Saving, Spending and Effectiveness of Incentives (PDF) Would Raising Social Security Covered Compensation Cap Be Harmful or Helpful to System in the Long Run? (PDF) Raising Household Saving: Does Financial Education Work? (PDF) How Social Trends in Marriage Duration Affect Women's Eligibility for Social Security Wife and Widow Benefits (PDF) The Sensitivity of Proposed Social Security Benefit Formula Changes to Lifetime Earnings Definitions (PDF) Large Connecticut Public Employee Union Rallying Support for State-Run Retirement Plan for Private Companies New Jersey Politicians Grandfather Own Benefits But Limit Those of New Workers Pensions for Elected State Officials: Target for Reform? [Opinion] Illinois Pension Reform Plan: Taxpayer Costs Must Be Fixed, Not Unlimited Would Tax Increases at the Top Affect Savings and Investment? [Guidance Overview] 2011 Tax Year FATCA Reporting by U.S. Persons of Participation in Foreign Retirement Plans and Deferred Compensation (PDF) Freeing Boomers from Social Security Cuts Blows Up Math [Opinion] Text of Pension Rights Center Policy Director's Speech at 2012 Latino Retirement Security Summit Funding Stabilization for Pension Plans on the Horizon (PDF) Public Pensions Won't Work Until Hard Structural Impediments Are Solved Senate Votes Down Forced Retirement for Postal Service Employees Putting Social Security's 2012 Financial Outlook in Perspective (PDF) Florida Governor Signs Measure to Reduce State's 401(k) Contributions Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2012 Trustees Report (PDF) Small but Significant 401(k) Fixes Urged at House Hearing [Opinion] U.S. Chamber Outlines Path Forward for Private Retirement Benefits GAO Report on Defined Contribution Plans: Approaches in Other Countries Offer Beneficial Strategies in Several Areas Bipartisan Scrutiny of Income Tax Breaks for Retirement Plans Means Reason to Worry Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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