The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) turns five years old this month. As companies rush to shore up pension or cancel underfunded plans you need to protect yourself from common pension mistakes. PPA was designed to close loopholes in the pension system and addresses problems for the roughly 34 million Americans covered by traditional pensions known as defined-benefit plans.

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When I was in high school, Betty Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique, changed my life.nHaving read it, I had an increased awareness and concern about our rights as women but, at the time, I was thinking about personal rights, not financial rights.

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