Bomba de aposentadoria

According to Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research, the nation’s 1,400 multiemployer plans are facing a $553 billion “hole” of unfunded liabilities, meaning they don’t have sufficient assets to cover what they owe workers. About a fourth of these plans are in the so-called “red zone,” where insolvency is more imminent, potentially within the next 10 to 20 years. Most of the participants in these plans work in the transportation, services and manufacturing industries.

1.5 Million Retirees Await Congressional Fix for a Pension Time Bomb

The agreement to increase government spending reached this month included a deal to craft what could effectively be a federal rescue for pension plans.

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