Did Your Promised Pension Plan Get Taken Away?

ByABC News
May 23, 2005, 1:00 PM

May 23, 2005 — -- Did your company promise you a defined benefit pension that you are now not going to receive?

Millions of Americans are losing their defined benefit pension plans when their companies go bankrupt and then turn the pension over to the federal government. Bethlehem Steel and National Steel are two companies that turned over their pensions to the federal government.

Has that happened to you? How has this changed your life, your family budget and retirement plans?

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