Advancing retirement security through voluntary employer-sponsored plans

The Pension Coalition includes employers, service providers, and trade associations concerned about the private retirement plan system. T he employer community now voluntarily provides and administers over 29,000 single employer defined benefit plans – covering 34.5 million workers and retirees and paying over $120 billion in benefits annually; over 1,500 multiemployer plans – covering over 9.7 million workers and retirees; and over 800,000 defined contribution plans – covering over 60 million workers and retirees. The preservation and encouragement of voluntary employer-sponsored plans are critical to the advancement of retirement security, capital formation, and job creation.

The coalition covers a broad range of retirement issues including single employer and multiple employer pension funding reform, hybrid plans, multiemployer plans, defined contribution plans and pension accounting.

The Steering Committee of the Pension Coalition is made up of the following organizations:

• American Benefits Council
• The American Trucking Association
• Business Roundtable
• Caterpillar
• Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets
• The Dow Chemical Company
• The DuPont Company
• The ERISA Industry Committee
• Financial Executives International
• Ford Motor Company
• General Motors
• Honeywell
• IBM
• International Paper
• John Deere
• Kodak
• The National Association of Manufacturers
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Xerox Corporation

To contact The Pension Coalition about membership or to discuss private pension and retirement plan issues, please click here.