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(PBGC). ''US Pensions''. 
An organisation set up by the US government to take over the assets and liabilities of insolvent pension funds and to provide limited guarantees as to the payment of pensions by those funds. 


The European Economic Community was founded in 1957, and subsequently consolidated into the European Community, together with the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.  
The PBGC has wide powers to investigate US pension schemes and their sponsoring companies.   
   
The European Community itself was then consolidated into the European Union (EU).


The equivalent in the UK is the Pension Protection Fund.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[European Commission]]
* [[Pension Protection Fund]]
* [[European Economic Area]]
* [[European Union ]]
 
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Revision as of 13:57, 6 May 2013

(PBGC). US Pensions. An organisation set up by the US government to take over the assets and liabilities of insolvent pension funds and to provide limited guarantees as to the payment of pensions by those funds.

The PBGC has wide powers to investigate US pension schemes and their sponsoring companies.

The equivalent in the UK is the Pension Protection Fund.

See also