Pension Rights Center

The Pension Rights Center is the country’s only consumer organization dedicated solely to protecting and promoting the retirement security of American workers, retirees, and their families. To learn more about the Center's Pension Help, Pension Policy and Pension Action activities, read our About Us page.

The Pension Rights Center is a convener of Retirement USA, an initiative working for a new future retirement system to supplement Social Security. Retirement USA's Re-Envisioning Retirement Security conference took place in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 2009, with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis delivering the keynote address. Learn more about the event.

The Pension Rights Center mourns the death of Beth Shulman. (February 7, 2010)

The Pension Rights Center was quoted in an article in the Dallas Morning News about the Obama administration's automatic IRA proposal. (February 1, 2010)

Read the Pension Rights Center's statement on the Obama administration's automatic IRA proposal. (January 28, 2010)

Find out why workers and retirees from one company could lose their pension benefits -- and what they're doing about it. Subscribe to our blog. (January 21, 2010)

Today is a National Call-in Day to stop the U.S. Senate from authorizing a commission that could make cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs without public input. Take action now! (January 19, 2010)

PRC Director Karen Ferguson wrote an article about Retirement USA for a TIAA-CREF Institute Policy Brief on retirement system reform. PRC Board member Alicia Munnell also contributed to the brief. (January 14, 2010)

Read about some of the latest news in the world of pensions. (January 11, 2010)

The Pension Rights Center was quoted in both USA Today and the Los Angeles Times recently. (January 11, 2010)

How much can I contribute to my 401(k) this year? What is the average Social Security benefit? What percentage of retirees receives a traditional pension? These questions and many more are answered on our new statistics pages. (January 7, 2010)

If you're eligible to enlist in the Army but choose not to, are you still considered a soldier? Of course not. Why then does the Labor Department define 401(k) plan participants the way that it does? (January 5, 2010)

Happy New Year! Read about some of the latest news in the world of pensions. And make one of your resolutions for 2010 to subscribe to our blog! (January 4, 2010)

Read our summary of the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act (S. 2832), a bill that requires 401(k) plans to give workers annual estimates of how much their accounts would buy in lifetime monthly payments when they retire. (December 30, 2009)

Read about some of the latest news in the world of pensions. (December 28, 2009)

The Pension Rights Center has issued its Consumer Agenda for Retirement Security, a list of recommendations for improving and expanding the nation's retirement income system. The Agenda has been submitted to the Obama administration. Read the press release.

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