Protecting Your Pension For Dummies

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Are you concerned about your pension? In today’s tumultuous business environment, you have every right to be. With revised pension laws and under-the-table pension cuts by companies making waves, you have to be ever vigilant about protecting what you have.

Protecting Your Pension For Dummies helps you do just that. This easy-to-follow guide explains all the latest pension laws, what your rights are, and the best ways to keep your money safe. It demystifies the various types of pension plans and outlines just what it takes to qualify for a pension. Once your plan is set up, you’ll see how to navigate company bankruptcies, mergers, and pension cutbacks, as well as divorces, loans, and personal bankruptcy—and take action if you’ve been shortchanged to recoup what is rightfully yours. You get all the expert guidance you need to:

Understand the Pension Protection Act of 2006
Evaluate different pension plans
Plan for retirement while you’re working
Ensure that you get your pension
Request essential plan documents
Understand eligibility, accrual, and vesting
Guard your pension from your employer—and from life’s ups and downs
Understand pension distributions
And much more

Complete with a glossary of terms and an appendix of charts and forms discussed throughout the book, Protecting Your Pension For Dummies is the fun and easy way® to grasp all the important pension rules—and retire with a full nest egg!

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ramifications of the curent investment enviornment

Review Date: November 21, 2008

Reviewer: Joyce Browning, Cleveland. OH

The current investment/economic enviornment could profoundly change many retirement benefits.

This book takes complicated information and presents it in a very readable format that is sprinkled with humor.

Pensions is one area where a person can not afford to be a dummy - this book will take you out of the dummy status - it is an excellent source of information.

really good overview of pensions

Review Date: December 17, 2007

Reviewer: G. Patrick, Columbus OH USA

This is a good overview of various types of pensions. It's helpful if you and your spouse, significant other, or parents are confused about what is and is not allowed under the different pension provisions. It includes non profit pensions so it worked for me. It also helped me consider if I would rollover my pension if I changed jobs. Finally it had understandable pros and cons of Roth IRAs.

Finally, a voice that speaks to ordinary people...

Review Date: October 11, 2007

Reviewer: Philip J. Koehler, Newport Beach, CA

Virtually the entire pension investment and consulting industry is devoted to chasing employers to sell them products or services and speaking and writing well over the heads of the vast majority of the ordinary people who make up the millions of plan participants. It's little wonder that studies show year after year that the American workforce in increasingly mystified by the terms and procedures of their own employee benefit programs. As an ERISA attorney with more than 35 years experience, and founder of an online employee benefits counseling firm, BenefitsZoom.com, I have rarely found a book so well written for the end user of pension plans. Employers would do well to save a few dollars from the big bucks they pay their brokers and pension consultants and include a copy of this book with each summary plan description they distribute about their pension plans.

A Great Resource for Employees

Review Date: September 14, 2007

Reviewer: L. Eisenberg, Washington, DC

As a pension lawyer, I know how difficult and arcane the pension laws can be. Yet they affect tens of millions of employees. I also know how difficult it can be for employees to get access to an understandable explanation of these pension rules. Without this knowledge, employees are at a real disadvantage in understanding and enforcing their rights. And these rights pertain to many employees' most valuable asset other than their home. This fine book covers the waterfront of all of the important pension concepts and rules in an impressively understandable and readable manner. The reader should not be daunted or intimidated by the subject of pensions when this resource is available. I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about their retirement savings and well-being. This is one subject where it pays not to be a "dummy."

REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY EMPLOYEE

Review Date: August 11, 2007

Reviewer: Joan, Los Angeles

This book is a must read for anyone who is worried about retirement and the ins and outs of retirement plans. The information is extremely informative and invaluable. As a financial planner and long term company employee, this book answered the many questions and concerns regarding my 401k and pension benefits that my company corporate benefit department couldn't answer. It is an easy read and cuts through the legal "mumbo jumbo" to present information in a simple and understandable format. If "Knowledge is power" then this book will definately give you the power you need to be in control of your retirement plan and financial future. Anyone putting away money through a company retirement can't afford not to buy this book.

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