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TABLE A2

Percent of Private Sector Workers and Retirees Ages 55 and Older Receiving Various Combinations of Employer Provided Pension1/ and Health2/ Benefits and Social Security Benefits Based on Prior Employment
Type(s) of Benefits Received Total In Labor Force Retired3/
Total Employed Full-Time Employed Part-Time Looking For Work

NUMBER
(in thousands)

        30,500

       13,095

    11,931

674

                 490

        17,405

PERCENT
Total                            100 100 100 100 100 100
Employer pension, employer health, and Social Security 9 0 0 0 0 15
Employer pension, employer health, no Social Security 1 0 0 0 0 2
Employer pension, Social Security, no employer health 14 8 7 16 9 20
Employer pension, no Social Security, no employer health 6 10 10 8 11 3
Employer health, Social Security, no employer pension 3 0 0 0 0 5
Employer health, no employer pension, no Social Security 1 0 0 0 0 1
Social Security, no employer pension, no employer health 30 12 11 26 21 44
No benefits 36 70 72 50 58 10

1/Pension benefits are defined as annuities and lump sum distributions received either after age 54 or at an earlier age and rolled over into retirement savings.

2/Health benefits are defined as health plan coverage that can be continued for life.

3/Retirees are defined as persons who have withdrawn from the labor force and who formerly worked for the same employer for a period of five years or more or who have pension benefits or health coverage based on their former employment.

NOTE: Benefits received by workers currently employed in the private sector may be based on prior employment in either the private or public sector.

SOURCE: Retiree Pension and Health Benefits Supplement to the September 1994 Current Population Survey.

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