Updating my post the other day concerning the ramifications, under ERISA and otherwise, of retiree medical benefits and attempts to terminate them, a recent post in BenefitsBlog documents why, for those of us still working today, it may well be a non-issue. Citing a report from Watson Wyatt, BenefitsBlog notes that future retirees will
Retirement Benefits
Terminating Retirement Benefits
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Retirement Benefits
The problem of companies reneging on promises to provide medical and other benefits to retirees is in the news pretty much every week, if not every day. Company after company, retirement plan after retirement plan, benefits that beneficiaries believed were theirs for life are being significantly reduced, or even terminated. In some industries, most prominently…