 here's your chill on money question of the day Doug from Illinois asks I work at a bank that still offers a pension plan my question is when I retire is there any reason to leave the pension with the company since the pension plan is considered an asset of the bank if they ever were to run into financial difficulty the pension funds could be at risk well Doug this may seem simple but if I were you I would make sure that the bank is in a strong financial position and if that's the case