People who work for a company which has a pension system pay into the plan on a weekly or monthly basis, or the company pays into the plan fund on their behalf. , in the stock market) so that it will urn a profit, assuring that retirees will have the money which has been promised them. During the boom years, the pension funds earned more than enough money to meet their obligations to their retirees.
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