Product Description

Are you concerned about your pension? In today’s tumultuous business environment, you have every right to be. With revised pension laws and under-the-table pension cuts by companies making waves, you have to be ever vigilant about protecting what you have.

Protecting Your Pension For Dummies helps you do just that. This easy-to-follow guide explains all the latest pension laws, what your rights are, and the best ways to keep your money safe. It demystifies the various types of pension plans and outlines just what it takes to qualify for a pension. Once your plan is set up, you’ll see how to navigate company bankruptcies, mergers, and pension cutbacks, as well as divorces, loans, and personal bankruptcy—and take action if you’ve been shortchanged to recoup what is rightfully yours. You get all the expert guidance you need to:

• Understand the Pension Protection Act of 2006
• Evaluate different pension plans
• Plan for retirement while you’re working
• Ensure that you get your pension
• Request essential plan documents
• Understand eligibility, accrual, and vesting
• Guard your pension from your employer—and from life’s ups and downs
• Understand pension distributions
• And much more

Complete with a glossary of terms and an appendix of charts and forms discussed throughout the book, Protecting Your Pension For Dummies is the fun and easy way® to grasp all the important pension rules—and retire with a full nest egg!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #312505 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 361 pages

From the Back Cover
Find out about 401(k)s, defined benefit plans, and more

The fun and easy way® to grasp pension rules, avoid pitfalls, and retire with a full nest egg

Want to protect your pension? This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide explains the big changes in pension laws, how they affect you, and the best ways to keep your money safe. You'll see how to handle pension plan modifications and company changes as well as personal issues like divorce and bankruptcy — and take action if you've been shortchanged.

• Check pension plan investments and expenses

• Get the scoop on eligibility, accrual, and vesting

• Plan for retirement while you're still working

• Ensure that you receive the right pension distribution

• Hire and work with a pension attorney

About the Author
Robert D. Gary and Jori Bloom Naegele have practiced law together for almost 25 years. Their law firm, Gary, Naegele & Theado, LLC, has recovered additional pension benefits for thousands of pensioners.

Customer Reviews

protecting your pension plan for dummies
This book is a virtual Cliff's Notes for corporate executives and human resources professionals who must be able to answer questions and speak intelligently about corporate pension plans. The book is neither intimidating nor simplistic. It seems like a great resource for those who need to clearly understand pension plans, whether they are participants or professionals in the business world.

I especially like the book's handy format, using icons which alert the reader to the importance of certain issues and information. If you or your spouse has a pension plan, this book can save you big money. Knowing your rights equals keeping more of your assets. You will learn how to make informed, insightful decisions.

The only "dummies" regarding this book are those who don't read it.

A Great Resource for Employees
As a pension lawyer, I know how difficult and arcane the pension laws can be. Yet they affect tens of millions of employees. I also know how difficult it can be for employees to get access to an understandable explanation of these pension rules. Without this knowledge, employees are at a real disadvantage in understanding and enforcing their rights. And these rights pertain to many employees' most valuable asset other than their home. This fine book covers the waterfront of all of the important pension concepts and rules in an impressively understandable and readable manner. The reader should not be daunted or intimidated by the subject of pensions when this resource is available. I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about their retirement savings and well-being. This is one subject where it pays not to be a "dummy."

Finally, a voice that speaks to ordinary people...
Virtually the entire pension investment and consulting industry is devoted to chasing employers to sell them products or services and speaking and writing well over the heads of the vast majority of the ordinary people who make up the millions of plan participants. It's little wonder that studies show year after year that the American workforce in increasingly mystified by the terms and procedures of their own employee benefit programs. As an ERISA attorney with more than 35 years experience, and founder of an online employee benefits counseling firm, BenefitsZoom.com, I have rarely found a book so well written for the end user of pension plans. Employers would do well to save a few dollars from the big bucks they pay their brokers and pension consultants and include a copy of this book with each summary plan description they distribute about their pension plans.