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TABLE A3

Percent of Private Sector Workers and Retirees Ages 65 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)

16,685

3,408

2,913

370

125

13,276

PERCENT
Total                      100 100 100 100 100 100
Employer pension, employer health, and Social Security 14 0 0 0 0 18
Employer pension, employer health, no Social Security 1 0 0 0 0 1
Employer pension, Social Security, no employer health 22 24 24 23 22 22
Employer pension, no Social Security, no employer health 1 3 3 1 0 1
Employer health, Social Security, no employer pension 5 0 0 0 0 6
Employer health, no employer pension, no Social Security 0 0 0 0 0 0
Social Security, no employer pension, no employer health 47 37 36 36 63 50
No benefits 9 36 37 39 14 2

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3/Retirees are defined as persons who have withdrawn from the labor force and who formerly worked for the same employer for a period of five years or more or who have pension benefits or health coverage based on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