Companies Limit Health Coverage of Many Retirees
By MILT FREUDENHEIM, New York times

Companies consider pension freezes
January 1, 2004
By Christine Dugas , USA TODAY

A resurgent stock market has failed to reduce pension shortfalls, prompting more than a third of U.S. companies with a pension plan to say they'll freeze benefits.(There is more)

Is there a pension crisis?
November 18, 2003
By Theo Francis and Ellen E. Schultz
Staff Reporters of
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Failed Pensions:
November 12, 2003
A Painful Lesson In Assumptions

GE just announced a one time, extra monthly pension check, or a "13th check,"
November 3 , 2003