Every three years your employer is required to send you an individual benefit statement that tells you how much you have earned and whether it is vested meaning that you have worked long enough to lock it in.
WSJ: Conquering Retirement: A Pension-Plan Health Checkup
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Many South Koreans are still prepared to give Kim Jong Il the benefit of the doubt: perhaps he is sincere in wanting to improve relations, but vested interests stand in his way especially the armed forces.