A federal judge on Thursday denied an appeal brought by Detroit pensioners, who sought a rollback of the pension cuts levied on retirees during the city’s bankruptcy proceedings. At ...

The months-long debate over how to overhaul the U.S. military retirement system may be reaching its conclusion. Congress on Tuesday unveiled a bill to act on Pentagon-endorsed recommendations ...

Research conducted by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has traditionally suggested that the trend of shifting from defined benefit plans to defined contribution ...

Pennsylvania has now gone two months without a budget, and the end of the impasse isn’t in sight. In an attempt to jump-start negotiations, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday proposed ...

Here’s a chart that shows the percentage of a retiree’s income stream that comes from various sources. More people are drawing pensions today than they were 40 years ago ...

Here’s a segment from PBS NewsHour that explores the idea of raising the limit on the amount of income subject to payroll taxes. How much would raising the cap help Social Security’s ...

In the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the pension boards representing the city’s police and firefighters this weekend sued the city to unfreeze retiree cost-of-living adjustments, ...

Here’s a segment from PBS NewsHour that examines the pros and cons of reducing Social Security benefits by tying them to cost-of-living increases rather than wage increases. ...

Early this summer, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Chris Christie didn’t act illegally when he slashed state pension contributions by over $3 billion between 2013 and 2015, ...

In the past, we’ve briefly covered “pension advance” firms – firms that make very high-interest loans against retirees’ pensions, similar to a payday loan model. The business ...