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Why ERISA Matters: Benefits for Surviving Spouses
Robert Toth, in Business of Benefits Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Nov. 26, 2019

"The Retirement Equity Act of 1984 was designed to change all of that. By implementing the requirement of a spousal survivor annuity, a whole class of non-working spouses received protection which was desperately needed. So in [a] speech to my friend's [plan administration] staff, I asked them to take a broader view -- if just for a moment -- of the important task they were being asked to implement. It was valuable social policy with real, human effect which they were responsible for pulling off, and they should take a measure of pride in the work they were doing."

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