[Ipg-smz] Two lumps of "retirement" coal in my holiday stocking

[Rob Preston]

Dave, CMP had profit sharing, in addition to 401k, until, I’m thinking, the early 2000s. It could be that. 

Rob

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> On Dec 22, 2019, at 5:07 PM, David Needle via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
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> I was at InformationWeek 1994 - 1996 when it was still, I think, CMP Publications, Inc. I'm not sure why this form states 1998 as "year reported". Perhaps it took that long to report this to Social Security? 
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>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 1:55 PM Evan Schuman via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>> Also curious: If I recall correctly, CMP Publications didn’t exist in ’98. It would have been CMP Media by then.
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>> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of David Needle via Ipg-smz
>> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2019 4:44 PM
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>> Subject: [Ipg-smz] Two lumps of "retirement" coal in my holiday stocking
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>> I recently applied for social security - yeah, I'm that old. Sigh. But not retiring. 
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>> Anyway, I just received two letters from the Social Security Administration headed 
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>> Potential Private Retirement Benefit Information. 
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>> Each one begins: "We are writing to tell you that you, or the worker whose Social Security number appears at the top of this form, MAY be entitled to some retirement benefits from a private employer .
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>> Long story short, one letter says there is a "value" of $18,376 in a retirement account connected to CMP Publications reported in 1998 and the other lists $34,687 from Computer Currents Publishing reported in 1996. 
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>> Both of those companies are long gone so I assume this is just some unresolved accounting by Social Security. While I don't remember these exacty figures, I did have a 401K at both companies so I assume that is what is this is in reference to and the money isn't actually owed to me or even exists anywhere as I would have rolled it over long ago. 
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>> Oh well, got excited there for a minute. 
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