Tag: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Like most organs of the federal government, the Labor Department maintains an explicit policy for government shutdowns as a consequence...

If a plan that received special financial assistance merges with an ongoing plan, the ongoing plan is not considered to be in critical status.

A transportation workers’ multiemployer pension plan will receive funds created by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to pay retirement benefits.

The web page addresses how applications submitted before a final rule is published will be affected by any changes PBGC makes.

The agencies have filled in the gaps for implementing provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act.

The agency's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Annual Report shows its multiemployer insurance program will become insolvent sometime in FY 2026.

Due dates for filings or actions that would otherwise have been due on or after April 1, and before July 15, have been extended to July 15.

An executive order requires each agency to establish on its website a single, searchable indexed database that contains, or links to, all the agency’s guidance documents and provides...

The agency has issued proposed rules on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans and Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans, as well as the assumptions PBGC uses to...

The proposal includes corrections, clarifications, and improvements to its regulations on Reportable Events, Premium Rates and others.

Controlled group information, company financial statements, and the defined benefit (DB) plan’s actuarial valuation report; some of all of this information will be added to five reportable events.

The agency explains that, in limited situations, employers will be able to use the soon-to-be issued coverage forms to request an opinion letter about whether a plan being...

Family trust trustee with Senate connections named 16th director of pensions lifeboat.

Serco Inc. will also provide PBGC field offices with database support and data analytics.

New maximum civil penalties for failure to provide certain notices or other material information and for failure to provide certain multiemployer plan notices have been announced.

The agency has included revised instructions regarding disaster relief to reflect recent changes made to PBGC’s practice.

The table is needed to compute the value of early retirement benefits and, thus, the total value of benefits under a plan.

The PBGC insures DB plans covered under title IV of ERISA, and if a question arises about whether a plan is covered under title IV, the PBGC may...