Defined Contribution Pension

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Social Security (United States) - Current Controversies - Contrast With Private Pensions
... Although Social Security is sometimes compared to private pensions, the two systems are different in a number of respects ... Unlike a pension, for example, Social Security pays disability benefits ... A private pension fund accumulates the money paid into it, eventually using those reserves to pay pensions to the workers who contributed to the fund and a private system is not universal ...

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