The Federal Government is looking for nearly 3,000 Americans who may be due an average of $3,700 in pension benefits. The Labor Department hopes to locate people who have earned pensions in private defined benefit pension plans that were later terminated.
The list includes workers employed at 565 companies, mostly in the airline, steel, transportation, machinery, retail trade, apparel, and financial services industries. A large concentration of the workers were in New York, Illinois, Pensylvania, Texas, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and California.
To see if your name is on the list, check the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s or the Labor Department's web site.