Retirement
The Academy’s Retirement Practice Council (RPC) is a trusted source of expertise for policymakers and regulators tackling important policies regarding Social Security, public and private pension plans, other retirement benefits and investment strategies, and related lifetime security policy issues.
The RPC provides clear and objective technical guidance to help create a future of security and stability for U.S. organizations and retirees.
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Multiemployer Pension Plans
Multiemployer plans’ funding, financial reporting, financial risks, and plan design.
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Pension Accounting and Finance
Financial reporting for retirement plans, including updates from national and international accounting standards bodies, policy changes, and new regulations.
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Public Pension Plans
State and local government employee benefit plans’ funding, financial reporting, financial risks, design, and actuarial standards of practice related to public plans.
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Retirement Policy
Long term retirement policy, including the effects of legislation and regulations on retirement benefits, and emerging issues affecting retirement plans.
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Social Security
Financial sustainability and other topics related to the Social Security program.
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Retirement Resources
Letter to Ways and Means Committee on Impacts of Raising Retirement Ages
Academy letter to Chairman Jim Bunning of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security following up on questions related to congressional testimony about retirement agesTestimony on Pension Leakage
Senior Pension Fellow testimony to the ERISA Advisory Council addressing the problem of pension monies that are spent for non-retirement purposes, commonly called “leakage.
Topics: Retirement
Policy Paper
Financing the Retirement of Future Generations
Task Force on Trends in Retirement Income Security monograph on the challenges and policy options for financing the retirement of future generations
Topics: Retirement
Congressional Testimony on Pension Reform Issues
Senior Pension Fellow testimony to the House Economic and Educational Opportunities Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations addressing pension reform issues.
Topics: Retirement