Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
PENSION RESOURCE CENTER - The Pension Rights Center is continuing its management and operation of a National Pension Assistance Resource Center to support the Administration on Aging¿s (AoA) Pension Counseling and Information Projects and other pension assistance providers, with the goal of ensuring that older Americans receive the retirement benefits they have earned. The target population is older workers and retirees nationwide, with a special focus on hard-to-reach and traditionally disadvantaged groups, including minorities, women, and non-English speaking populations. The major project objectives are to: 1) design and deliver high-quality pension law training and supporting educational materials, and to provide ongoing technical assistance and legal back-up services to AoA¿s regional pension counseling projects and the extended community of legal services providers willing to assist; 2) maintain and publicize PensionHelp America, a nationwide Internet-based pension information and referral service; and 3) promote and facilitate the identification, sharing and implementation of best practices among the AoA pension counseling projects, and to support the uniform collection and reporting of reliable program-wide outcome data. Expected outcomes include enhanced capabilities of AoA¿ s Pension Counseling and Information projects, resulting in increased independence and financial security of older Americans. Products will include training curricula; development and coordination of a three-day national training conference (sessions included in the most recent National Training Conference focused on a nationwide outreach campaign, project case review, and planning for productive site visits between projects); customized field-based training; maintenance of a pension counseling listserv, Pension Counseling.Net and PensionHelp America website; publications, testimony, and brochures; and enhancement of the Pension Assistance Information Database online data collection tool.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).