Excerpt from Current Issues Relating to Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (Pbgc) Premiums and Single-Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans This pamphlet prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, provides a discussion of current issues relating to Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums and defined benefit pension plans. This pamphlet includes discussion of the proposals contained in(1) the Presidents FY 1988 budget to increase per-participant annual premiums to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and to make structural revisions to the premium program, and(2) the Presidents competitiveness proposals as they relate to defined benefit pension plans. Part I of the pamphlet is a summary. This is followed by a discussion of the PBGC single-employer insurance program and the variable rate premium proposal (Part Ii), minimum funding standard and deductions (Part Iii), termination of underfunded plans (Part Iv), employer access to assets of overfunded plans (Part V), and post-retirement medical benefits (Part Vi). In each of Parts II- VI, there is a description of present law, the Administration proposal, and the General Accounting Office (GAO) report recommendation (where made), as well as an analysis of issues. The Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service of the Senate Committee on Finance has scheduled a hearing on May 18, 1987, which will focus on the proposals to increase and revise the PBGC premium program, to modify minimum funding requirements for defined benefit pension plans, to alter the rules governing the termination of underfunded pension plan, and to revise the conditions under which employers may recover excess assets from overfunded pension plans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Employer-sponsored defined benefit pension plans (DBPP) face unprecedented challenges in the midst of significant changes in our nation's retirement landscape. Many DBPP & the fed. agency that insures them, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC), have accumulated large & growing deficits that threaten their survival. Meanwhile, the percentage of Amer. workers covered by DBPP has been declining for 30 years, reflecting a movement toward defined contribution plans (e.g., 401(k) plans). To address these issues, a diverse group of knowledgeable individuals was convened -- incl. gov't. officials, researchers, accounting experts, actuaries, plan sponsor & employee group rep., & members of the investment community. Charts & tables.

This book provides background and analysis of the premiums charged by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which is a government-owned corporation that was created in 1974 to protect the retirement income of participants in private-sector, defined benefit (DB) pension plans. When a company terminates a DB pension plan that does not have enough assets to pay 100% of the promised benefits, PBGC pays, in accordance with statute and up to a maximum yearly dollar amount, the benefits to participants in the terminated plan. In FY2012, 887,000 individuals received $5.5 billion in benefit payments from PBGC. An additional 614,000 workers will receive benefits when they retire. PBGC consists of two insurance programs: (1) a multiemployer pension program, which protects the benefits of 10.3 million participants in collectively bargained DB pensions in which several employers make contributions, and (2) a larger single-employer pension program, which protects the benefits of 33.4 million participants in DB pensions operated by one employer for its eligible employees.