General Reference
Legal Information
Employee Benefit Research Institute
This website provides objective research and educational materials about retirement, pensions and benefit programs.
Mergers and Acquisitions
When your employer is merged into or bought by another company, the surviving company has several different options to deal with your defined benefit plan.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Fact Sheets
This page contains links to a number of relevant fact sheets on pensions rights and issues.
Pension Rights Center
The National Pension Assistance Resource Center is working to create a nationwide network of counseling and information services to ensure that everyone with a pension or retirement savings question or problem will have a place to go for help.
Protecting Your Defined Benefit Plan
Company pensions can fail or have serious funding problems. Employees need to be more aware of the strength and security of their retirement plans.
Protecting Your 401(K) Plan
The value of your 401(K) plan at retirement depends on the amount of contributions and how your investments perform. If the company does not make the contributions or if investment performance is poor, you could end up with less than you contributed.
Should You Take Your Pension In A Lump Sum?
Some companies offer to cash out the pensions of certain retirees and instead give them one lump-sum payment. Read this information on lump sum payments and how they could negatively affect your retirement finances.
Survivor Benefits
In many cases, surviving spouses can continue to get pension benefits after the "participant" spouse (the one with the pension) dies.