Subject: Newsletter: PBGC Search Engine for Missing Participants
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 07:02:23 -0500

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PBGC OPENS ONLINE SEARCH ENGINE FOR MISSING PLAN PARTICIPANTS

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation now has an online
Pension Search Directory! By using a forms-capable Web browser
(e.g., Netscape 2.0 or later or Internet Explorer 2.0 or
later), readers are able to search to see if their name is
included in a list of approximately 2,700 people on whose
behalf the agency is holding money that came from terminated
defined benefit pension plans.

The Pension Search Directory is at

   http://search.pbgc.gov/

(When a pension plan closes down, there are usually some people
who cannot be found. Many of the people owed benefits worked
several years for a company, then moved on to other
opportunities, never knowing they had earned a pension.  Others
may have forgotten they have a pension coming from a former
job. Some of the missing may be survivors of former workers who
have some benefits coming, or women who have changed their
names upon marriage or divorce after leaving the employer
sponsoring the now-terminated defined benefit plan.)

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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS MEETING AND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you or your organization would like to publicize an upcoming
meeting, conference or seminar of interest to employee benefits
professionals, please feel free to do so on the Meetings and
Conferences message board on BenefitsLink. There is no charge.
(The previous $50 charge for for-profit organizations has been
eliminated.)

There is no limit to the size or content of the announcement,
though you must post the announcement yourself using your Web
browser.  (Please do not fax or email announcements to
BenefitsLink.)

To view or post an announcement, just go to

   http://www.benefitslink.com

Then click on "Message Boards," then select the Conferences and
Meetings message board on the drop-down menu you'll see.

Dave Baker - erisa@benefitslink.com
201 South Orange Avenue, Suite 1225 Orlando FL 32801
Fax - (407) 841-3054

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