Tag: PBGC

The final rule includes minor changes to an interim final rule issued last year in response to public comments.

On September 11, 2015, PBGC published a final rule that made significant changes to the prior regulation about reportable events.

However, a bankruptcy court judge has granted Walter Energy’s request to terminate retiree benefits for union workers.

The agency will post a notice about what's new for practitioners in January.

What happens when premium increases break the current system?

The agency issued a new table for determining expected retirement ages for participants in pension plans undergoing distress or involuntary...

The situation looks especially dire for multiemployer pension plans, the ratings agency says.

One career actuary tells PLANSPONSOR pension plan clients have voiced a range of strong emotions—even a sense of betrayal—after yet...

The multiemployer program deficit is $52 billion, and the single-employer program deficit is $24 billion.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 includes a repeal of an ACA provision and extension of pension funding relief, among...

It’s happened before and it will happen again—a hike in PBGC premiums and shifting SOA mortality projections have materially raised...

The increase in the single-employer rate was provided in The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013.

The agency is looking for ways to simplify DB plan calculations.

Reeder takes helm at PBGC, and Enhanced Retirement Solutions adopts VMS platform.

Modest improvements show in solvency of multiemployer and single-employer programs

Certain notices to the PBGC must now be filed electronically.

PBGC anticipates about 94% of plans and sponsors will be exempt from many reporting requirements.

The IRS published temporary regulations and proposed final regulations governing the process of reducing benefit payments by distressed multiemployer retirement...

The agency says funding relief prevents it from getting all information it needs to help plans.

Bankruptcies need not be imminent to ask PBGC to approve a partition.