WSJ - Signs Your Pension Plan Is in Trouble

[Chuckanut]

The 2/11/2012 Wall Street Journal has this article which may be of interest to some of us. I will post the link here, though I suspect it is behind a pay-wall. A quick trip to the library can fix the problem with an old fashioned hard copy.

Conquering Retirement: Signs Your Pension Plan Is in Trouble - WSJ.com

 

[ERD50]

It is accessible w/o a subscription/payment.

Is there point would you like to make, or were you just curious if it was behind a pay-wall? W/O any comment, you basically posted a blind link.

-ERD50

 

[Chuckanut]

The article covers four items:

Your pension is healthy, but your employer isn't.

Your plan offers lump-sum payouts.

Your company changes hands.

Your employer gets religion.

 

[gerntz]

Makes me think of SS not being able to pay full benefits down the road.

 

[Midpack]

Company changes hands killed my pension in 1994 (technically frozen at a very low benefit). Though it didn't seem so at the time, they probably did me a favor in that it forced me to plan on fending for myself while I still had time to do so.

 

[mountaintosea]

Even though I receive a pension I still save and watch my money. Never know what could happen. Supposedly ours is doing really well.