Does anyone know if the Leveraging option of the Pension has been tested 'legally' ? Reason asked is that I was part of the group sold off in 1999 to ATT and...
... Leveraging is legal as far as I know. What you might research is whether IBM 'adequately' disclosed to you the true nature of what leveraging meant....
Do you mean leveling? ... From: chckmate2004 To: ibmpension@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 8:31 AM Subject: [IBM Pension] Pension Leveraging Does...
... if the employee dies before retirement." I believe I was told that the above applies only if the employee dies AFTER beginning to collect retirement. I...
Check again- IF you were told that no beneifits would be paid IF you died before retirement- you were told wrong after 5 years [ depending on dates ] with the...
... chckmate2004, I think you are talking about Social Security leveling. You took a larger early pension anticipating SS income in return for a smaller...
http://tinyurl.com/e629b Toronto Globe & Mail – Reuters May 1, 2006 U.S. auditor warns of crisis unless pension issue resolved Liabilities have doubled in...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060429-084932-6144r.htm The Washington Times April 30, 2006 EDITORIAL: Emergency spending boondoggle [8 percent of poll...
You might have been given the correct information depending on when you were told this. Prior to 1984, if you died before you retired, your spouse would get ...
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/opinion/01krugman.html?hp By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: May 1, 2006, The New York Times For lower-income working Americans,...
Three of my kids are doctors and they'd all agree with this article. They think that extending Medicare to everyone is the only reasonable solution they can...
The way I understand it is this on the older plan. Employee passes before retirement: If spouse is alive - 50% If spouse is deceased - 50% to contigent. ...
... ...because there are too many people who refuse to believe they have a problem. They are in denial. They think they will be able to keep employer...
Do you suppose elimination of most of the health insurance industry will help this situation? ...while the Medicare trust fund will be depleted in 2018,...
Pensions in Peril Over Church Exemptions By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH Mary Petti worked for 35 years at a community hospital in Orange, N.J., earning a pension with...
... I don't think anyone is suggesting covering millions of new people to the Medicare program without any new source of funding. Presumably, if employers and...
http://www.fpanet.org/journal/articles/2006_Issues/jfp0506-art2.cfm Journal of Financial Planning A Convergence Toward Flat...and Lumpy by Lewis J. Walker,...
http://tinyurl.com/jxcwb San Francisco Chronicle Monday, May 1, 2006 Fighting the Hostile Takeover by David Sirota Amid all the consultant-packaged rhetoric...
... I don't wish to anger anyone, but anyone that would think that they are no crooks associated with religon could be in for a big supprise, just ask the...
AHEM! How can we stay in a harness? Are leaders bosses (business) are moving the barns overseas. Harnesses will be sold at local garage sales to illegal...
How bad is it if they think it is bad? WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Watson Wyatt Worldwide is warning that a new policy announced yesterday...
This certainly is a nail in the coffin of DB pensions. You really have to love an all republican government, there is no business wish denied. DOE Announces...
Hello, everyone, Here is the news for today, May 4, 2006. Motion to Instruct Passes House of Representatives Late last night, the House of Representatives...
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060505/column_lifting.html?.v=2 ... Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE - News) Chief Executive Henry McKinnell got private use of company aircraft...