The Pension Rights Center held its annual three-day National Training Conference for the U.S. Administration on Aging’s Pension Counseling and Information Program. At the conference, attendees shared stories of clients they had helped, learned how to tell a story to the media from award-winning journalist Ellen Schultz, and heard presentations by leading experts on pension litigation, bankruptcy, government plans, and the rights of spouses under the military retirement system. Pension counselors were also treated to an informative and entertaining session titled “ERISA: What Were They Thinking?” featuring three of the principal drafters of the nation’s private pension law: PRC Fellows Frank Cummings, Bob Nagle, and Henry Rose. Video from that session is available on the Center's YouTube page.

The pension counseling program has recovered more than $140 million for clients since its inception in 1993. In the past four months alone, articles highlighting the work of the counseling projects have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, Kiplinger’s Retirement Report, and more.

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