Compliance | October 26th, 2020 Trump Administration to Look at Pensions Transferred to PBGC A memorandum issued by the president first orders three departments to review the situation for Delphi retirees, then orders a...
Data and Research | October 23rd, 2020 PBGC Reports Effect of Pension Risk Transfers on Its Premium Income The agency could see a premium income loss of $196 million for the 2019 premium payment year, but certain trade-offs...
Compliance | September 10th, 2020 PBGC to Pay Pension Benefits for McClatchy Workers and Retirees The agency estimates that McClatchy’s plan is 57% funded with approximately $1.3 billion in assets and $2.3 billion in benefit...
Compliance | September 4th, 2020 Delphi Retirees Lose Bid to Have Pension Takeover by PBGC Reversed A federal appellate court found that court adjudication is not required for PBGC to terminate a plan and that retirees...
Compliance | August 6th, 2020 Musician Union Pension Benefit Cut Likely to Be Denied The financial hardship faced by the American Federation of Musicians and Employers’ Pension Fund is characteristic of a broader problem—one...
Compliance | May 18th, 2020 Partitions May Be the Union Pension Funding Crisis Solution There is bipartisan support building around the idea of allowing the most stressed union pensions to enact “partitions” in order...
Compliance | April 14th, 2020 PBGC Extends Certain Premium Payment and Filing Deadlines The action is in response to an IRS extension of some retirement plans’ Form 5500 filing deadlines.
Compliance | March 4th, 2020 DOL, PBGC Announce Searchable Guidance Databases Each database contains, or links to, all the agency’s guidance documents and provides certain information about them.
Compliance | February 14th, 2020 Trump’s 2021 Budget Proposes Increasing Multiemployer PBGC Premiums The premiums would increase by $26 billion over 10 years.
Compliance | January 14th, 2020 First Facilitated Merger of Multiemployer Plans Approved by PBGC Under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act, if one or more of the plans in the merger is in critical and...
Compliance | January 13th, 2020 PBGC Issues Premium Filing Instructions for 2020 Plan Years Premiums have gone up, and the agency says it has simplified reporting requirements for risk transfer activities.
Compliance | December 10th, 2019 Officials Issue New Items for DB Plan Sponsors The PBGC has issued a final rule regarding pension plans undergoing distress or involuntary termination, and the OSFI has released...
Compliance | November 19th, 2019 Information Copies of 2019 Form 5500 Published by DOL Among other notable changes, the Form 5500’s Line 23 has been revised to eliminate mortality table options that are not...
Compliance | November 12th, 2019 PBGC Proposes New Methods for Counting Inactive Multiemployer Plan Participants The PBGC anticipates that providing plans with three available counting methods will allow each plan to choose the one that...
Compliance | October 21st, 2019 PBGC to Assume Responsibility of Health System’s Retirement Plans This protection by the PBGC is one reason for a string of lawsuits that challenge other nonprofit healthcare systems’ retirement...
Compliance | October 16th, 2019 Legislation to Help Multiemployer Plans Reintroduced The bill would funnel money to the PBGC from imposed fees on financial companies seeking a DOL exemption in order...
Compliance | October 14th, 2019 PBGC Announces Premium Rates for 2020 The agency notes that there are no scheduled increases (other than indexing) for years after 2019.
Compliance | September 30th, 2019 PBGC Issues Proposed Rules About Benefit Payments The agency will consider payments prior to plan terminations when calculating benefits, and it proposed to change its assumptions for...
Compliance | September 20th, 2019 PBGC Releases New Forms Relating to ERISA Section 4062(e) In 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law major changes to Section 4062(e), which requires companies with defined benefit (DB)...
Compliance | August 7th, 2019 Lawmakers Demand Help for Union Pensions The former Republican Speaker of the House has teamed up with former Representative Joe Crowley to advocate for a solution...