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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 ...
This list of largest pension funds in the United States involves two main groups: government pension funds for public employees and collectively bargained pension funds, jointly managed between employer and employee representatives after the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
A traditional form of a defined benefit plan is the final salary plan, under which the pension paid is equal to the number of years worked, multiplied by the member's salary at retirement, multiplied by a factor known as the accrual rate. [9] The final accrued amount is available as a monthly pension or a lump sum.
The Pension Protection Act cracks down on supporting organizations, particularly Type III supporting organizations. The Act applies further regulations and penalties that takes away several of the privileges that supporting organizations have over private foundations, such as applying private foundation law of excess benefit transactions, excess business holding rules, and pay out requirements.
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.
Wespath Benefits and Investments (formerly known as General Board of Pension and Health Benefits) is an American non-profit pension agency affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Wespath supervises and administers retirement plans , investment funds, health and welfare benefit plans for active and retired clergy and lay employees of the ...
The massive increase in pension processing required by the Civil War led to the construction of a massive, new Pension Bureau Building. The Bureau of Pensions moved into this structure in 1887. [4] Political support came from the Republican Party, and the largest veterans' organization, the Grand Army of the Republic. [5]
Indiana State Police Pension Trust v. Chrysler LLC was a lawsuit brought in United States federal court June 2009 by several pension funds against Chrysler LLC and the United States Department of the Treasury , to block the planned sale of Chrysler LLC assets to a "New Chrysler" entity in the Chrysler bankruptcy .