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Pension Notes
View our most recent issue of our newsletter Pension Notes
The Pension Action Center at the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston was a partner with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in the development of this booklet.
Massachusetts State Public Worker Retirees: How Are They Doing?
Although much has been made of the Massachusetts State Retirement System's funding and abuses, little has been written about the benefits its provides. A retirement system should be judged first on whether it meets its goal of providing for workers in retirement.
The Pension Factor: Assessing the Role of Defined Benefit Plans in Reducing Elder Hardships
This 2009 study looked at the impact of defined benefit plan pensions and concluded:
“Rates of poverty among older households without DB [defined benefit] pension income were approximately six times greater than the rate among older households with DB pension income.”