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The Kline–Miller Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (Division O of Pub. L. 113–235 (text)) is a federal law that was enacted in the United States on December 16, 2014, with the goal of allowing certain American pension plans that have insufficient funds, and thus are at risk of insolvency, to reduce the benefits they owe to participants.
The United States saw significant growth in pension plans, both public and private, throughout the Progressive Era as labor sought more rights from larger, and often more industrialized employers. Private employer retirement plans also grew substantially following the passage of the Revenue Act of 1913, which implicitly granted tax exempt ...
Title I also includes the pension funding and vesting rules described above. The United States Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration ("EBSA") is responsible for overseeing Title I, promulgating regulations implementing and interpreting the statute as well as conducting enforcement. Plan fiduciaries and plan ...
Many U.S. cities are allowed to participate in the pension plans of their states; some of the largest have their own pension plans. The total number of local government employees in the United States as of 2020 is 14.3 million. There are 11.1 million full-time and 3.1 million part-time local-government civilian employees as of 2020. [16]
If Gov. JB Pritzker has his way, a 30-year pension funding initiative of a Republican predecessor would be no more. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar signed a bipartisan pension reform package in 1994, setting ...
Fitch Ratings reviewed pension funds for public employee retirees from every state. “In aggregate, states had $924 billion in Fitch-adjusted [net pension liabilities] as of state fiscal 2023 ...
(The Center Square) – The push is on for Illinois legislators to advance some form of pension reform to address what proponents say are shortfalls in Tier II pensions. Illinois implemented Tier ...
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is a United States federally chartered corporation created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary private defined benefit pension plans, provide timely and uninterrupted payment of pension benefits, and keep pension insurance premiums at the lowest level necessary ...