PBGC Simplifies Withdrawal Liability Calculation for Multiemployer Pension Plans
The agency expects the changes will reduce actuarial fees paid by multiemployer plans, but it admits the simplified methods might not reduce the withdrawal liability assessed on employers.
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued a final rule regarding methods for computing withdrawal liability under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA).
The agency says it expects that the final rule will reduce the actuarial fees historically paid by financially troubled multiemployer plans when calculating withdrawal liability. However, it admits that the withdrawal liability assessed on employer members of multiemployer pension plans that withdraw from a plan could go up or down with the simplified calculations.
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Trustees are wagering that relief under the most recent COVID-19 stimulus bill will provide a better option than a reduction in benefits.
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The fund, which has approximately 50,000 members and is in “critical and declining” status, had originally applied to the US Treasury Department to reduce earned benefits under the MPRA in January 2020. However, the fund’s application was rejected by the Treasury, which said the mortality rate assumptions and the new entrant assumptions under the proposal were “not reasonable under the standards in the regulations.”
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Athene to take over US$2.8 billion in JCPenney pension obligations
A JCPenney store is shown in Oceanside, California, on Jul 31, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake)
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NEW YORK: JCPenney said on Thursday (Apr 1) it has agreed to transfer its pension obligations to annuities provider Athene, ensuring that the US department store chain s retired employees will continue to get their benefits.
JCPenney, which said in December that it would seek to exit bankruptcy protection sometime this year, will not receive any money as part of the deal, but will shed the liabilities that came with the pensions.