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NEWS STORY

401(k) Accounts Are Not Retirement Plans

May 19, 2010

Congress created 401(k) accounts in 1978 as a way to close a loophole on executive bonuses. They were never intended as a replacement for traditional defined benefit pension plans--but today that is how they are often perceived, and as a result, many American workers will never have sufficient funds to retire as they would with a traditional or defined benefit retirement plan. Download the pdf.

SPOTLIGHT

2013 Program for Advanced Trustee Studies

Enrollment for the NCPERS 2013 Program for Advanced Trustee Studies is now open.

MORE NEWS

June 2013 Issue of the Monitor Now Available (June 10, 2013)

NCPERS Responds to The Intelligencer's Editorial "Getting Caught was Officials' Fear" (May 29, 2013)

May 2013 Issue of the Monitor Now Available (May 20, 2013)

Spring 2013 Issue of PERSist Now Available Online (April 25, 2013)

NCPERS Joins National Organizations Asking Congress Not to Sponsor PEPTA (April 25, 2013)

April 2013 Issue of the Monitor Now Available (April 4, 2013)

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES

August 19-21, 2013
Program for Advanced Trustee Studies
Cambridge, MA

October 27-30, 2013
Public Safety Conference
Rancho Mirage, CA

January 26-28, 2014
Legislative Conference
Washington, DC

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