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More than a million plan participants who were in danger of having their pension payments slashed were bailed out in a recent stimulus package. It gave $86 billion to shore up employee pension plans covering retirees at a myriad of companies. AARP fought hard for the measure, says David Certner, AARP’s legislative policy director.