Companies still scrounge for ways to reduce pension benefits.
By Ellen E. Schultz. If they get tarred with that label, it's curtains for another 50 years, if they even survive as a political entity. Visit the American Benefits Council homepage , then click on the retirement policy link in the right-hand column. HR 1102 did not get past the U.S. Senate in the last Congressional session largely because of a veto threat by President Clinton. Don Shuper provides a short extract from the ABC statement .