07/06/13 Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for Pension.

• Ireland to pay Catholic laundry workers $45M _{2013-07-06, 04:59 am}
  Ireland will pay several hundred former residents of Catholic-run Magdalene laundries at least 34.5 million euros to compensate them for their years of unpaid labor and public shame, the government announced June 26 following a decade-long campaign by former residents of the workhouses.
• Employers' marital confusion _{2013-07-06, 04:15 am}
  ... decision means gay spouses are entitled to a host of benefits they were denied previously. The decision extends pension and Social Security survivor benefits to same-sex spouses, grants equal access to the Family and Medical Leave Act, and gives ...
• Many retiring MPs will get pensions topping $100,000 a year for life _{2013-07-06, 03:34 am}
  ... elected 1974-79 and 1993 to present and in cabinet for the Chretien and Martin governments, would receive an annual pension of around $165,000 if he sits until 2015 and a total lifetime pension of more than $5 million until age 90. Many federal ...
• Think tanks _{2013-07-06, 03:28 am}
  ... is set to reach 50 in 2029, by which point the civilian age will likely cross 70 for men and women alike. Talk of pension cuts, according to Defense Minster Moshe Ya'alon, is often an attempt to "blacken the faces" of the tens of thousands of career ...
• High court prompts review of employee benefits _{2013-07-06, 02:48 am}
  ... decision means gay spouses are entitled to a host of benefits they were denied previously. The decision extends pension and Social Security survivor benefits to same-sex spouses, grants equal access to the Family and Medical Leave Act and gives ...
• Egypt's ouster of Morsi a setback for democracy _{2013-07-05, 06:26 pm}
  ... mining companies plunged on Monday," largely in anticipation of Obama's announcement. Remember the "housing bubble"? Pension funds and endowments lost lots of money because of "stranded assets." Now investors are getting nervous about a "carbon ...
• Karen Lynn Triplett Appellant v. Charles Thomas Triplett Appellee _{2013-07-05, 01:00 am}
  In this appeal arising from a dissolution of marriage action, Karen Lynn Triplett challenges orders of the Jefferson Family Court related to the division of Charles Thomas Triplett's pension.
• AARP ranks WellStar in top 10 for older workers _{2013-07-06, 01:16 am}
  ... employees moving into retirement by allowing someone who has been with WellStar for 10 years to draw part of their pension while still working. "Our people are our greatest asset," Mathews said. "Our older workers are seasoned, experienced, wise, ...
• Five council managers in a 1.3m pensions bonanza _{2013-07-06, 12:37 am}
  ... award of a 303,597. Mr Horan was 64 when he officially retired in April of last year and is now receiving annual pension payments of a 75,899. The retired manager of Limerick city, Tom Mackey, received lump-sum payments of a 202,646 and a 91,222 ...
• Mercury News editorial: BART strike isn't really over _{2013-07-06, 12:16 am}
  The BART strike is not over. The likelihood that much of the Bay Area will be without commuter train service again in the near future remains very high.
• San Bernardino Seeks Ruling It's Eligible for Chapter 9 _{2013-07-05, 11:48 pm}
  San Bernardino asked a bankruptcy judge to set aside the objections of two public employees' pension funds and rule that the California city is eligible for Chapter 9 protection.
• Contra Costa Times editorial: BART strike has long way to go before it's over _{2013-07-05, 11:17 pm}
  And, from where we sit, the likelihood that the Bay Area will be without commuter train service again in the near future remains very high.
• Many MPs will get pensions topping $100,000 a year for life _{2013-07-05, 11:06 pm}
  Many federal politicians who decide to retire at the next election are set to walk away with millions of dollars from the lucrative parliamentary pension plan.
• Threat of lawsuit over special pension payments still hangs over Colorado Springs _{2013-07-05, 09:44 pm}
  ... one surviving spouse and their pensions from Memorial Hospital. The former employees say they had been getting their pension every month, but when Memorial joined the University of Colorado Health System, the payments stopped. The payments were not ...
• Benefits tweaked over same-sex ruling _{2013-07-05, 09:31 pm}
  ... decision means gay spouses are entitled to a host of benefits they were denied previously. The decision extends pension and Social Security survivor benefits to same-sex spouses, grants equal access to the Family and Medical Leave Act and gives ...
• Lawmakers haven't adjourned, but new laws on tuition equity, vaccines, pensions already in effect_{2013-07-05, 09:12 pm}
  The Oregon Legislature is still in session, but a number of the laws they approved earlier this spring already went into effect.
• Lululemon faces third U.S. class action suit related to recall of Luon pants _{2013-07-05, 09:05 pm}
  ... Chancery in Delaware by the Hallandale Beach Police Officers and Firefighters' Personnel Retirement Fund in May. The pension fund filed suit over Lululemon's decision to increase potential bonuses for executives prior to announcing the recall. It ...
• N.Y. State False Claims Act Six Years Later _{2013-07-05, 08:44 pm}
  ... , in the first case adjudicated by a New York state court it was determined that a defendant's continuous receipt of pension benefits after retirement, which were secured by fraudulent conduct prior to retirement, "may render an investigation ...
• Smiths not miserable now on pensions _{2013-07-05, 08:41 pm}
  Smiths Group, the maker of airport security scanners and bomb detectors, has sealed a deal to lower its troublesome pension liabilities.
• NC pension plan fares better than most states in Moody's report _{2013-07-05, 08:41 pm}
  A new independent report that aims to provide a more realistic evaluation of state pension plans across the country rates North Carolina’s funding gap as the sixth-lowest in the nation.