Pension Rights Center

The Pension Rights Center is the country’s only consumer organization dedicated solely to protecting and promoting the retirement security of American workers, retirees, and their families. To learn more about the Center's Pension Help, Pension Policy and Pension Action activities, read our About Us page.

Board member Olena Berg Lacy will be testifying on PRC's behalf before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about 401(k) fees on Wednesday, September 17, at 10 a.m. Eastern. You can attend the hearing or watch it online. (September 15, 2008)

Read our new fact sheet about Q-SERPs, special executive pensions that are unfair to rank-and-file workers and taxpayers. (September 11, 2008)

Center Staff Attorney Rebecca Davis gave a presentation as part of a webinar on Social Security and retirement savings, aimed at working women. The free webinar was sponsored by the National Women's Law Center. (September 10, 2008)

Read the Center's comments to the Department of Labor on the proposed regulations for disclosure of 401(k) fees. (September 8, 2008)

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the nation's landmark pension law, turns 34 today. (September 2, 2008)

New data that shows that the rate of bankrupcty filings by older Americans has gone up significantly since 1991. (August 29, 2008)

Read the latest edition of our Pension Action e-newsletter. (August 26, 2008)

Are you a federal employee? Do you belong to the Thrift Savings Plan? If so, a new Legislation page, explaining a bill that would improve the TSP, might interest you. (August 25, 2008)

The Conversation on Coverage, a PRC initiative, has released its final proposals to expand pensions and retirement savings for low- and moderate-income wage earners.