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NEWS ADVISORY: Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) to join with business & labor leaders to highlight urgent need for action on overlooked bipartisan issue

February 4, 2010 — Estimated 2010 Defined Benefit Plan Required Contributions and Credit Balances: Survey Data and Analysis from Mercer

Funding Relief: Please Pass Pension Funding Relief Legislation

Funding Relief: Questions and Answers — Growing the Economy while Saving and Creating Jobs

Funding Relief: Flexibility to Use The Relief When It Is Needed

Funding Relief: Help Needed for 2011                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

October 30, 2009 — Jobs in Peril: Assessing the Impact of Increases in Defined Benefit Plan Funding Obligations on Employment During an Economic Recession

October 1, 2009 — Council Testimony on Defined Benefit Pension Funding Relief before House Ways and Means Committee

March 9, 2010 — Council Summary of Revised Senate Funding Legislation

February 25, 2010 — Council Summary of Pension Funding Relief Provisions in the Draft HIRE Act

January 19, 2010 — Group Letter to Congress Urging Defined Benefit Funding Relief Legislation

December 22, 2009 — Group Letter to President Urging Defined Benefit Funding Relief Legislation

November 10, 2009 — Updated Summary of Leading Single Employer Funding Relief Proposals (Courtesy of Davis and Harman)

June 22, 2009 — Specific Defined Benefit Plan Funding Proposals

March 16, 2009 — Examples Highlighting Need for Additional Pension Funding Relief (Courtesy of Hewitt Consulting)

March 16, 2009 — The Future of Defined Benefit Plan Funding under PPA, the Recovery act and Relief Proposals (Courtesy of Watson Wyatt Consulting)

February 20, 2009 — Actuarial/Consultant Letters to Congress Regarding Pension Funding Issues

January 2, 2009 — Council Talking Points: Legislation Needed to Address Funding Crisis

December 9, 2008 — Actuarial/Consultant Letters to Congress Regarding Pension Funding Issues

• To House Ways and Means Committee
• To House Education and Labor Committee
• To Senate Finance Committee
• To Senate HELP Committee

March 9, 2010 — Senate pension funding relief measure saves jobs, but more work remains

February 19, 2010 — New video calls on Congress to act on pension funding relief

February 12, 2010 — Dropping pension funding relief provisions from jobs bill a serious mistake, will cost jobs and slow economic recovery

February 11, 2010 — Council applauds inclusion of pension funding relief provisions in Senate jobs legislation

February 4, 2010 — Pension funding relief legislation needed now

January 28, 2010 — Council urges bipartisan approach to health care reform, retirement savings, pension funding relief as part of economy, jobs strategy

November 13, 2009 — PBGC deficit underscores need for funding relief

October 30, 2009 — Council research report: pension funding relief critically necessary to preserve jobs, promote economic recovery

October 27, 2009 — Council applauds Pomeroy-Tiberi pension funding bill, will unveil jobs report at October 30 media briefing

October 1, 2009 — Defined benefit pension plan relief critically needed, advice legislation should protect existing arrangements

June 24, 2009 — Council applauds Chairman Miller for inclusion of defined benefit funding relief provisions in retirement savings legislation, applauds Rep. Pomeroy for development of comprehensive relief measure

May 20, 2009 — Record PBGC deficit requires Congressional action to strengthen defined benefit pension plan system

December 23, 2008 — Enactment of pension relief measure "a critical first step"