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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plans - policy Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Opinion] Do Public School Teachers Really Receive Lavish Benefits? Contrary to 'Entitlement Society' Rhetoric, Over Nine-Tenths of Entitlement Benefits Go to Elderly, Disabled, or Working Households Low U.S. Saving Rate Coming Home to Roost Younger Investors Reluctant to Make New IRA Contributions Culture Complex: Retirement Savings Habits Vary (Somewhat) Across Cultures Do Private Saving Schemes Offer a Plausible Substitute for Public Pensions? Lessons from the Economic Crisis GOP-Led Drive for California Pension Reform Initiative Dead for 2012 Ballot [Guidance Overview] American Benefits Council Summary of Proposed Changes to After-Death Minimum Required Distribution Rules in the Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act (PDF) Taxpayers Underreporting Retirement Income [Opinion] Where is the Public Debate on National Retirement Income Policy? (PDF) [Opinion] New Pensions for New Times [Guidance Overview] Puerto Rico Treasury Dept. Guidance for Qualification of Retirement Plans under 2011 PR Code and Relief for Retroactive Qualification under 1994 PR Code (PDF) Trades Seek Clarity on IRS 'Governmental' Retirement Plan Definition ERISA Failures and the Erosion of Workers' Rights: The Urgent Need to Protect Private and Public Workers' Pensions and Benefits The Rise and Fall of Employer-Sponsored Pension Plans Tax Expenditures Have Major Impact on Federal Budget Change in Governmental Plan Definition to Affect Charter School Employees An America Built to Last: Strengthening Economic Security in Retirement Report of Council of Economic Advisers: 'Supporting Retirement for American Families' (PDF) [Opinion] ERIC to Congress: Fix Pension Funding Rules to Strengthen Pensions and Improve Economic Growth Annual Statistical Supplement, 2011, Published by the U.S. Social Security Administration Social Security Bulletin (February 2012) PBGC Director Explains Retirement Security Challenges, Pension Agency Finances Before House Panel Webcast and Written Testimony: Hearing Entitled 'Examining the Challenges Facing PBGC and Defined Benefit Pension Plans' Association of Public Pension Plans Launches Web Site Promoting Extension of Coverage to Private-Sector Employees Is My American Airlines Pension Guaranteed? Yes, But... Unions Howl at Details of Jerry Brown's Pension Overhaul Proposal California Governor Jerry Brown Delivers Pension Reform Language to Legislators Mayor Says Pensions and Benefits for Uniformed Workers Will Cost New York City More Than Their Actual Salaries Some Top Military Brass Making More in Pension Than Pay [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice of Hearing on Discussion Draft of IRS Regs on 'Indian Tribal Government Plan' Status [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice of Hearing on Discussion Draft of IRS Regs on 'Governmental Plan' Status [Opinion] 401(k) Plan Leakage: Blame Hardship Distributions, Not Loans IMF Analysis of Pension Reforms in Advanced Economies How to Calculate 401(k) 'Tax Expenditures' [Opinion] The Savings Crisis of Working Americans: The Retirement Industry Call to Action House Panel to Examine Financial Health of PBGC This Thursday Public-private Pay Gap Varies Greatly By Education Level [Opinion] Setting Interest Rates Too Low: The Fed's New Tax on Retirees How Index Trading Increases Market Vulnerability Pushback from Disclosure of Costs to Participants: Too Much 401(k) Sunshine? Rhode Island Treasurer Says Move 36 Local Pension Plans Into State-Run System [Official Guidance] Second Quarter Update to the 2011? 2012 IRS Priority Guidance Plan (PDF) Legislative Background of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions, 2011-2022 [Opinion] The Striking Impact of Transparency, the Prohibited Transaction Rules and the Exclusive Benefit Rule [Guidance Overview] IRS Extension of Transition Relief for Puerto Rico Qualified Plans to Participate in U.S. Group Trusts and Deadline to Transfer Assets What Should You Do with 401(k) Funds at Retirement? [Official Guidance] Bill Text for H.R. 3819: Health Freedom for Seniors Act Ann Combs Previews Retirement and Investment Issues Facing Washington This Year How Much Do 401(k)s Cost the Treasury? Workers Fight Switch to 'Church Plan' Status of Pension Plans Workers Fight Switch to Church Pension Plans Developing a Pension Funding Policy for State and Local Governments (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Recent Developments Affecting Puerto Rico Retirement Plans (PDF) Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to Publish Details About Addition of Roth 401(k) Option to Thrift Savings Plan Report on 2011 U.S. and Canadian Legislative and Regulatory Developments for Health and Retirement Plans Consumption Structure, Welfare Goods and Retirement Income: Linking the Ageing Puzzles Budget Puts Military Pension Plan in Cross Hairs [Opinion] Public Pension Propaganda: The Lie 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. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). 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