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Pension News 2021
March 12, 2021
VICTORY  VICTORY  VICTORY
Pension Rights Center / TIME TO CELEBRATE CONGRESS PASSES LEGISLATION TO PROTECT RETIREE'S PENSIONS
NO ONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO STEAL OR ERODE WORKER'S PENSIONS
NCCMP / Executive Summary of American Rescure Plan 
Democrats defend $86 Billion bailout for Union Pensions in Covid-19 relief bill
Pension Bills have always been Bipartisan. Not anymore /  Brookings Institute
Congress bailout troubled Union Pensions Plans in Philly area
Relief bill has $86 Billion for failing Pensions
Ohio Democrat calls passage of Union bailout provision BEST DAY OF MY SENATE LIFE / SHERROD BROWN
FORBES - ELizabeth Bauer / The Covid Relief Multiemployer Pension Bailout is Complete - Now What ?

April 3, 2021
 The Pension Bailouts Begin
The American Rescure Plan of 2021 : Pension Plan Benefits
Multiemployer Pensions in trouble receive relief in newest stimulus bill
New law causes Musicians Pension Trustees to rethink benefit cuts / Pension Rights Center
3-30-21 Federal Register / Application to reduce benefits to Warehouse Union # 730 Trust Fund
Webcast : Fiduciary Institute Series 2021 / April 7, 2021 / Intro to Fiduciary Governance 
BlackRock to pay $9.7 Million settlement over ERISA allegations
Funding Ratio for State Pension Plans Slips in 2020
U.S. lawmakers Generosity on Pensions is just a starting point for Bolstering Retirement Security

Pension and Financial News
August 5 , 2021
 Milliman Public Pension funding tops 80% first time in 5 years
US Household Debt jumps by the most in 14 years to nearly $15 trillion in the 2nd quarter
CRFB: Bipartisan Infrastructure pay-fors only raise half as much as needed ( pension smoothing )
How many people are at risk of losing their homes in your neighborhood ?
5th circuit plan participants lacked standing to bring ERISA FIDUCIARY breach claims
* What happens when Doctors can't tell the truth ?
Consultation risks taking DC Pension consolidation "too far,too fast"
IRS issues guidance for Multiemployer DB plans receiving special financial assistance from PBGC
Stay in or get Out? Employers should evaluate their options under the PBGC's new withdrawal liability guidance?
"G-FEE'S "  Pension Smoothing on the table for Infrastructure offsets
ARPA rescue is literal for distressed Multiemployer plans
ILLinois Pensions among worst-funded in nation, report confirms
How should Retirees respond to Inflation?
August 19, 2021
GOOD NEWS : Milliman Multiemployer Pensions funded the most since 2007
Withdrawal liability concerns for employers to Multiemployer pension plans that receive special financial assistance

Sept.4, 2021
Nixon broke with GOLD 50 years ago. What comes next?

Social Security trust Funds take a step backward
Record - keeper consolidation triggers Fiduciary responsibilities
Social Security's funding Shortfall / Congressional Research Service
I'll be robbed twice in one lifetime :
Teamwork needed to solve PBGC's Multiemployer puzzle
With $20 TRILLION between them, Blackrock and Vanguard could own almost everything by 2028
Will Multiemployer plan financial assistance work?