In many states and localities, these employees have stepped up by forgoing pension and benefit opportunities that were gained through years of trading larger salaries for a better pension and benefits program.
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Ford assumed virtually all Rouge's health care and pension benefit costs and covered Rouge for legacy environmental liabilities through 2009.
The Pension and Welfare Benefit Administration shares jurisdiction over these plans with the Internal Revenue Service.
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To cut government spending and keep the government from going over the debt ceiling, the government will suspend some investments in pension and health benefit funds for federal workers beginning on Monday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders.
In addition to this, the days when an employee could count on the company pension and Social Security benefit to provide a decent retirement income have faded.
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They have all the dues, pension funds, and benefit funds paid by their members, and they will not mitigate demands since all their other unionized companies would expect the same treatment.
To make this move, you have to work for a company that offers both a 401(k) defined contribution plan and a traditional defined benefit pension plan, and offers the option to roll assets from the former (the DC plan) to the latter (the DB pension).
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United Airlines (UAL) and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) made a dirty deal to eliminate our company pensions and replace them with anemic PBGC pensions.
Motorola said last week that it would freeze its employee pension benefit plans and stop matching 401(k) contributions.
The bottler, which operates in North America, Turkey, Russia, Greece and Spain, said it would refine its selling and service organization, lower its general and administrative expenses, make its supply chain more efficient and modify its defined benefit pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.
That number includes both defined benefit pension plans and contribution plans like 401(k)s.
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Enron would have never been possible without the concerted effort of legislators, lawyers, tax experts, accountants, financial analysts, investment banks, traditional lending banks, brokers, portfolio managers, actuaries, and benefit and pension consultants.
But due to the disappearing number of traditional defined benefit pension plans and the impending funding shortfalls in Social Security, current employees anticipate less than 30% of their income to come from these sources.
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What is the effect upon participants in a pension plan when the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation takes over the plan and replaces company pensions with PBGC pensions?
Bailouts are continuing with the Postal Service, Federal Housing Administration, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and more.
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So whereas Tony Blair comfortably survived early left-wing revolts, over a miserly increase to the basic state pension and cuts to single parents' benefit, the 10p guerrillas rapidly extracted their concessions.
She is also betting on ST Engineering and SembCorp Industries, which should benefit from restructuring efforts along with pension-fund cuts and lower interest rates.
Like traditional pension plans, and unlike 401(k) plans, cash-balance plans are wholly funded by employers and insured by the federal Pension Benefit Guarantee.
Most of the expense decline was due to payroll savings through attrition and a freeze of defined benefit pension plans.
Pension plans promise an outcome (the benefit) and then work to provide it.
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With markets volatile and corporations scaling back defined-benefit pension plans, those in or near retirement are paying high fees to transform plain old variable annuities into a source of guaranteed income for life.
Swooning stockmarkets are a particular headache for British fund managers, who have had too much invested in equities for too long, which is where many of their recent problems arise, and why almost every defined-benefit pension plan is now in trouble.
The request came in a June 20 letter from the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association to U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Bradley Belt , executive director of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.
American sponsors four defined benefit pension plans covering nearly 130, 000 workers and retirees.
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Obama administration officials have been wrestling with the challenge of funding retirement across lengthening lifetimes and amid dwindling traditional "defined-benefit" pension plans.
For pilots, it sponsors a defined-benefit pension plan, a defined-contribution plan and gives access to a 401(k) that doesn't include any company match.
As a result, monitoring whether investment staff owning hedge funds may benefit personally and improperly in connection with state pension investments is highly problematic.
And remember that people are living longer, so a pension benefit is critical for your well-being.
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"These plans are concerned about their ability to invest with your firm going forward, " Ms. Weingarten wrote, given Mr. Loeb's support for StudentsFirst and its "outspoken attacks" on defined-benefit pension plans.
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