Nelson McCausland was speaking on the bill's second stage which aimed to make provision for Northern Ireland corresponding to the Westminster PensionsAct 2011.
The 1995 Occupational PensionsAct lulled scheme members into a false sense of security by creating a Minimum Funding Requirement that led them to believe that even if their employer became insolvent, there would always be enough money to meet pension promises.
Rather than trying to act as the main provider of health, education and pensions, it would act as the guarantor of universal access and as a regulator.
Congress rejected this 1937 proposal and turned against further New Deal measures, but not before the Social Security Act creating old-age pensions went into effect.