Retirement Pensions

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This paper explains that new laws permit corporations (1) to eliminate health insurance once promised to employees for early retirement and (2) to reduce retirement plans or change plans to the benefit of the corporation and (3) denies workers the right to sue the company to comply with retirement payments. The author points out that the pension deficits can be contributed to the fact that many corporations are overpaying CEOs' lump-sum pensions for years they did not work. The paper concludes that, if Congress does not write new laws in support of the American worker, almost all Americans will be living in poverty and working well into their golden years because of the broken promise and elimination of retirement plans.

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"With the airline industry in peril, a few have eliminated the guaranteed pension plans in bankruptcy court and two have delayed pension contributions to cut costs. Delphi Corp., the largest US automaker, filed for bankruptcy protection on Oct. 8. They are trying to discontinue medical and life insurance benefits to its retirees. Pension funds for Delphi are $11 billion short. According to Harvard law professor, Elizabeth Warren, who specializes in bankruptcy "There's no business in America that isn't going to figure out a way to get rid of [these benefit promises]". Policies that once existed to allow Americans to live comfortably upon retirement have been eradicated by lawmakers. These same lawmakers are also encouraging companies to discard the lifetime-benefit agreements."

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