small fraction of what they are setting aside for pensions to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation,

which pays at least some pension benefits to workers if a company goes bankrupt and cannot pay the

pensions it has promised.

• Deposit insurance: Banks are required by law to pay a small fraction of their deposits to the Federal

Deposit Insurance Corporation, which goes into a fund that pays depositors the value of their bank

deposits up to $250,000 (the amount was raised from $100,000 to $250,000 in 2008) if the bank should go

bankrupt.

• Workman’s compensation insurance: Employers are required by law to pay a small percentage of the

salaries that they pay into funds, typically run at the state level, that pay benefits to workers who suffer an

injury on the job.

• Retirement insurance: All workers pay a percentage of their income into Social Security and into Medicare,
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