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

[David Needle]

Right right ... I do recall profit sharing as well Rob.
Perhaps worth more investigation, but I can't imagine i didn't collect
everything that was coming to me when I left. And If I didn't it can't
possibly still be accessible, can it?

On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 2:49 PM Evan Schuman via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> Maybe, but when I left CMP in ’99 (after 11 years there), I think they
> paid out or transferred profit-sharing along with everything else. At least
> I think they said that they did that.
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> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> *On Behalf Of *Rob Preston
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> Dave, CMP had profit sharing, in addition to 401k, until, I’m thinking,
> the early 2000s. It could be that.
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> 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:
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> 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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