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How social security payments
affect private pensions
Donald Bell
Labor economist, Office of Wages and Industrial Relations, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Diane Hill
Labor economist, Office of Wages and Industrial Relations, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Coordinating the two sources of retirement income tends to lower employer costs for private pension plans, and results in private pensions which replace a larger percentage of preretirement earnings for higher paid workers.
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