Sixth Circuit holds that ERISA's anti-alienation provision prevents the State of Michigan from requiring that a company making pension plan payments to an incarcerated inmate send the payments to the inmates' institutional address, thereby allowing the warden to garnish up to 90% of each deposit to reimburse for the costs of caring for the inmate: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.
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