Election Year Politics and Retirement Issues

 

 

DEMOCRATS	REPUBLICANS
Workplace retirement accounts   Increased pension portability   Push companies to provide annual disclosures to employees about pension investments   Make pension funding a priority in the event of corporate bankruptcy filings   CEOs can’t dump workers with one hand while lining their pockets with the other   Preserve Social Security and strengthen it	Focus on PBGC ($26B deficit in 2011)   Immediate remedial action to address underfunded public pension liabilities caused by irresponsible promises by politicians at every level of government   Comprehensive reform of Social Security Raise age of retirement Slow the rate of benefit growth for higher income earners Allow younger workers to have personal investment accounts   Annual audit of the Federal Reserve More transparency Less potential for political influence   Study ways to set a fixed value for the dollar