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Once a worker has earned pension benefits, an employer cannot legally take them away.
Workers may lose part of the value of earned pension benefits or the right to continue accumulating generous benefits in their native country.
However, there is little more upsetting than having to explain to a frail, elderly lady that the tablets she has spent her hard earned pension on will not help cure her cancer and are likely to do more harm than good.
A longstanding liberal concern is that this makes Social Security more of a welfare program and less of an earned pension, which undermines its political support.
The legislation would roll back provisions that were slipped into the fiscal 2015 spending bill approved by Congress last year that made earned pension benefits vulnerable to cuts.
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Sixty-four of them had earned pensions of $150,000 a year.
For decades, G.M.'s blue-collar workers have earned pensions with two components.
The 34 longest-serving employees in this category have earned pensions averaging about $32,000 a year, the records show.
Rather than get angry and dismantle the remaining decent-paying jobs with earned pensions, why not question why these same benefits are becoming a rarity in the private sector?
That began to change around 2000, with a series of big bankruptcies in the steel, airline and auto-parts industries, where many workers and retirees had earned pensions greater than the limit.
The inquiry could clarify a lingering mystery of G.M.'s forced restructuring last year: both unionized and white-collar workers earned pensions while at Delphi, a G.M. spinoff also in bankruptcy, but when the federal government took over their failing pension plans, only Delphi's white-collar retirees suffered painful benefit cuts.
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