ABSTRACT
Information on the participation of corporations with the public sector in planning for the income security of retirees, that is, the macro-system, is available. This chapter explores "how" and "why" decision makers respond to acts of Congress that affect the corporate design for retirement income plans. It focuses on inform social policy analysts as knowledge producers, and social work professionals as knowledge users. The importance of systematically analyzing public social policy, and so by implication, private sector social policies which are sanctioned by Congress, has been stated by Eveline Burns. The research design developed to logically connect the empirical evidence to acts of Congress was a hybrid. In addition, informants were encouraged to discuss the corporate response to the individual acts of Congress in question. The focus of these questions was on the impact of the legislation on the corporate plans and the integration of qualified corporate plans with Social Security benefits.
