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• House Passes Butch Lewis Act to Save Earned Pension Benefits; Senate Must Now Follow Suit

  July 24, 2019: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the House passage of H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, also known as the Butch Le Read More >

• Multi-employer Pensions Handout

  July 01, 2019: On July 24, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, H.R. 397, also known as the Butch Lewis Act. The bill provides financial assistance to multi-employer pension plans Read More >

• With Earned Pension Benefits on the Line, Retirees Call on Congress to Pass the Butch Lewis Act

  June 11, 2019: By Richard Fiesta Executive Director, Alliance for Retired Americans The stakes couldn’t have been higher today for 1.3 million Americans when the House Education and Labor Committee approved H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation Read More >

• President Roach, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Work Together to Address Retirement Security

  May 13, 2019: Alliance President Robert Roach, Jr. attended a labor listening session with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX) recently hosted by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW). President Roach sa Read More >

• Alliance Endorses Miners Pension Protection Act

  May 07, 2019:   The UMWA 1974 Pension Plan has been decimated by a series of coal company bankruptcies and is projected to go insolvent in 2022. The miners, who risked their lives for years to provide a key source of energy to the na Read More >

• NY State Attorney General Letitia James Addresses New York State Alliance

  April 30, 2019: “Tish” James, attorney general of the state of New York, delivered a powerful address at the annual conference of the New York State Alliance for Retired Americans (NYSARA) on April 18, 2019 (Listen to her remarks courtesy of Read More >

• Administration Nominates a Social Security Privatizer as a Trustee

  August 17, 2018: The administration announced the nomination of James Lockhart to be one of the two public trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. If confirmed by the Senate, he would serve for four years. Lockhart served as Read More >

• Private Sector Pensions Fact Sheet

  May 10, 2018: The Alliance often works with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), an independent government agency, to protect workers’ and retirees’ private sector defined benefit pension plans and ensure that they remain a Read More >

• Analysts Compare Paul Ryan’s Retirement Finances to the Average American’s

  April 20, 2018: House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) announcement that he will retire at the end of his term makes him eligible for a pension in two years, when he turns 50. Based on the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) payments formul Read More >

• Missouri Retirees Help Force Suspension of Anti-worker State Law

  August 24, 2017: Missouri Alliance members and other activists forced the suspension Friday of a new anti-worker state law before it goes into effect, delivering dozens of boxes of signed petitions demanding it be put to a public vote in 2018. Read More >