PBGC Puts Pension Insurance Data Tables Online

These tables offer information on statistical trends related to defined benefit retirement plans in the private sector. PBGC is issuing these tables electronically to provide updated information familiar to users of the Corporation’s Pension Insurance Data Book (see PBGC Data Book Expands on Growing Multiemployer Liability) and will make them available both as a PDF and in an Excel format that allows users to examine and sort the data to suit their needs.  

The data tables provide those interested in the federal pension insurance program easily-accessible, detailed statistics for the single-employer and multiemployer plans that PBGC insures. The tables include data that quantifies the numbers of people and plans that PBGC protects, the people receiving or eligible to receive benefits from PBGC, and the benefits paid to them, claims against PBGC, the funded status of PBGC-protected plans, breakdowns of populations that PBGC protects by industry and state and other vital statistics.  

This information, the core of PBGC’s traditional Pension Insurance Data Book, will continue to be updated periodically. PBGC will augment these tables with other materials as they become available, such as the figures and chapters familiar to readers of the Data Book.