{"id":14904,"date":"2025-07-16T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14904\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:06:07","slug":"social-security-letter-leads-to-dead-end-in-search-for-former-altiers-shoe-store-employees-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14904\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security letter leads to dead end in search for former Altier’s shoe store employee’s pension"},"content":{"rendered":"

The News10NBC Team details breaking News, Traffic and Weather.<\/p>\n

HENRIETTA, N.Y. \u2013 A viewer got a letter from Social Security saying she is entitled to a pension but no one can say where the money is.<\/p>\n

The pension is from a former high-end shoe store called Altier\u2019s. People who got this letter are told to contact the administrator at an address on Mushroom Boulevard in Henrietta. The address is the old Altier\u2019s warehouse. It\u2019s an electric company now.<\/p>\n

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Berkeley Brean, News10NBC: \u201cSo it\u2019s a real mystery, where this money is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deb North, can\u2019t locate old Altier Shoes pension money: \u201cIt is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure where it is. I hope we can find it,\u201d North said.<\/p>\n

Deb North was a store manager for Altier\u2019s in Canandaigua back in the 1980s. The company went bankrupt in the mid-90s and was bought by a shoe company in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

30 years later, North trains and races a carriage horse. And now she gets this letter from Social Security saying she\u2019s entitled to a pension of $118.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess it\u2019s been so long since I was employed by Altier and Sons shoes that I had kind of forgotten that there was a little bit of a retirement plan for those of us who were salaried employees,\u201d North said.<\/p>\n

Berkeley Brean: \u201cI don\u2019t think you can find the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deb North: \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no record of the Altier plan administrator and every state and federal agency Deb and I turned to find the money, didn\u2019t have it.<\/p>\n

Berkeley Brean: \u201cWhere do you think that money is?\u201d<\/p>\n

Deb North: \u201cWell I hope that it is set aside. I believe it is required by law that these funds be set aside and held for companies that have these types of programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

When people file for Social Security, the IRS checks to see if there\u2019s other money they\u2019re owed. If there is, people get this letter. The instruction to get the money is to contact the plan administrator. If you\u2019re experiencing this problem, email us at news1@whec.com.<\/p>\n

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