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Chart: Frozen Defined Benefit Pension Plans in March 2008 U.S. Postal Service Offers $15,000 Buyouts to Cut Costs The DB(k): The Pension of the Future Retiree's Pension Decision: Lump Sum or Annuity? Unusual Social Security Claiming Strategies: Costs and Distributional Effects Employers Should Be on the Lookout for Common Retirement Plan Errors FAQs from Delphi Workers and Retirees about the Pension Plans of Delphi Retirement Plans Work Differently for Highly Compensated Employees Qualified Domestic Relations Orders Issues (Part I) Qualified Domestic Relations Orders Issues (Part II) After 6,000 Take Buyouts, G.M. to Lay Off Thousands Making the Best of Your Severance Package Tough Times for Pension Funds DuPont Sued by Workers Over Pension Fund Payments Delphi's Pension Shift to PBGC Riles, and Worries, Retirees Understanding Waivers of Discrimination Claims in Employee Severance Agreements Delphi Retirees File Suit Over Pension Former General Motors Chief to Receive Retirement Package Worth $10 Million Pension Cuts Often Miss Top Executives Best Dates for Federal Employees to Retire in 2010 Pension Costs for New York State Local Governments May Triple Massachusetts Police and Fire Unions File Class-Action Lawsuits over Pension Changes Delta Flight Attendant Says New Pension Formula Will Cost Beneficiaries Millions With Traditional Pension Plans Gone, What's Next? Proposal Would Have State Take Over City of Philadelphia Pension Plan IBM Reinvents the 401(k) Public Pensions: Cooking the Books? Hiding the Truth from Taxpayers? Public Pension Funds to Lead Suit Against Bank of America General Motors Using Huge Pension Fund in Way It Never Intended Supreme Court: Whether Employer Followed Procedures When Changing Calculation Rules Social Security is a Retirement Plan That's Guaranteed to Fail Chrysler Bankruptcy Cuts Deep Into Retirees' Pensions Big Surprise: Even the AARP Decides to Temporarily Suspend Its 401(k) Match Economic Crisis Has Accelerated the Decline of Defined Benefit Plans PBGC Assumes Pensions at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc Monsanto: Mixed Outcome from Rulings by Federal Judge in Illinois Re Cash Balance Plan Bill Would Allow Independent Advisers to Counsel 401(k) Participants AIG Alleges Former Top Executive Plundered Retirement Plan Retirement Plan Administrator Must Ascertain Marital Status Before Paying Benefits Detroit Pension Trustees Take Trips on Funds' Tab GM Slashes Pensions at the Top The safety of your pension GM Retirees Face An Uncertain Future Delphi Retirees Plan Class Suit Over Pensions; Claim 'Liquidation' Not Reorganization Major Auto Parts Supplier Intends to End Salaried Employees' Pension Plan Delta Pilots Union OKs Buyout Plan GM Pension Plans Remain Ongoing During Company Bankruptcy GM Pension and Healthcare Promises Sucked It Down the Drain; Here Comes California Strange But True: Claim and Suspend Social Security Benefits Are General Motors Pensions in Peril? Traditional Company Pensions Are Going Away Fast Chrysler's Pensions Are Underfunded by $10 Billion PBGC's Deficit Triples to $33.5 Billion PBGC Assumes Lenox Group Inc. Pension Plans PBGC 'Scandal' Is Failure to Fix What's Broken in a Timely Fashion Annual Funding Notice for Defined Benefit Pension Plans Old Maternity Leave Won't Count Toward Pensions, Supreme Court Rules Supreme Court Upholds AT&T Pension Treatment of Pregnancy Leave Prior to 1978 Chrysler Expands Worker Retirement and Separation Plan Altered Pension Plans Could Gut NFL Coaching Staffs The Public Pension Fund Time Bomb New Milestone in Death of Traditional Pensions, But Hybrid Plans May Grow Wells Fargo to Freeze Cash Balance Plan Public Pension Funds Are Masking a Funding Crisis Is Chrysler the Next Pension Crisis? Lawmakers Seeking Consensus on Social Security Overhaul Bankruptcy Reality Sets in for Chrysler and Workers Social Security Benefits Not Expected to Rise in '10 Chrysler Pension Plans: Information for Workers and Retirees Court Dismisses Claims against JPMorgan Cash Balance Plan Strange But True: Claim Social Security Now, Claim More Later PBGC, Daimler Agree on $600 Million Cash Infusion into Chrysler Pensions Delphi Retiree Benefits Could Vanish in GM Bankruptcy Divorce and Retirement: How to Take Control of Retirement Benefits (PDF) Auto Pensions Could Lose $23 Billion If the Companies Terminate Retirement Plans in Bankruptcy 3M to Offer Early Retirement to 11% of Its U.S. Workforce Anheuser-Busch to Freeze Pension and Ask Retirees to Contribute More for Health Benefits Under Bankruptcy, GM Pensions Would Be at Risk GM Bankruptcy Would Expose $13.5 Billion Pension Liability Auto Sector Pension Plans: Information for Workers and Retirees ERISA's Anti-Alienation Provision Bars Law Firm's Access to Vested Benefits The Pension Benefit Guaranty Scandal That Isn't (at Least Not Yet) Latest Ruling Splits Minn. District on Former Employee Standing PBGC Shifted to Stock Investments Last Year PBGC Assumes Patton Corp.'s GAC/Flxible Pension Plan Your Financial Future: Reconsidering Annuities—Are They Right for You? Immediate Annuities: The Key to Retirement Income District Court Upholds Whipsaw Calculation for Pre-PPA Distributions Fed's Bond Purchase Bad News for DB Plan Funding Fixing Expat Retirement Benefits Considerations in Implementing New Underfunded Pension Benefit Restrictions (PDF) PBGC Takes Over Virginia Foundry Retirement Plan Retirees No Longer AT&T Plan Participants, Lack ERISA Claim Failure to Update Inadequate 204(h) Notice Results in Liability for Pension Benefits Undistributed Vested Pension Benefits Cannot Be Used to Pay Participants' Attorney's Fees PBGC Pays Retirees After Madoff Loss U.S. DOL sues Bridgeport, Pa., benefit firm to protect welfare benefit plan participants nationwide DB Plan Meltdowns: Victims of Current Crisis Pension Liabilities to Hit Local, State Governments, Buffett Says Pension Bombs Going Off In Chicago Questions Arise from GM's Use of Pension for Buyouts and VEBA Trust Map Showing Funding Levels of State Pension Plans When City Hall Goes Bust U.S. Supreme Court: Ex-Wife Gets Deceased Dupont Co. Employee’s Pension State Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Determine Whether a DRO Is a QDRO, According to Appeals Court PBGC Doesn't Automatically Take Over a Pension Plan When a Company Goes Bankrupt Why You'll Work Through Your Retirement Will Pension Funds Suffer the Next Financial Implosion? Supreme Court Clarification for Plan Administrators Paying Benefits in Divorce Sixth Circuit Holds that Disabled Retirees Not Protected by Title I of the ADA Employees of Bankrupt Companies Have Employee Benefits Homework Is Your Pension Still Safe If Your Company Goes Bankrupt? State of Washington Way Behind in Funding the Pension Plans for Retired Workers' Beneficiary Designation Under Plan Trumps Divorce Decree Waiver (PDF) Overview: IRS Issues Proposed Regulations on Hybrid Plans How Working Affects Social Security Retirement Benefits Debate Continues Over Whether 401(k) Can Match IBM Pensions for Retirement Income IBM Pension Freeze Has Ripple Effects in Retirement System Opinion: Decision in Cash Balance Conversion Case May Have Missed the Boat Cash Balance Plans: What Do They Mean for Retirement Security? PBGC Moves To Protect Pensions At New York Racing Association Inc. How Children Can Provide a Pension for Parents Retirement Security Key Part of American Dream -- Bad Public Policy Now Undermining It UPS and Teamsters Extend Pension Deal CRS Anticipates PPA Changes to Result in Reduced Lump-Sum Distribution Amounts After 2007 Former Electrolux Workers' Pensions Protected CRS study evaluates effect of PPA on lump-sum distributions Fewer PBGC Retirees Getting Full Earned Benefits Retirement Fund Case at Top U.S. Court May Bolster Right to Sue The Baby Boomer's Guide to Social Security Overview: Long-Awaited Guidance Needed to Calculate Pension Lump Sums (PDF) 'Consumption Smoothing' Your Retirement Plan Which Way to Invest Once You Retire? The Brave New World of Lump Sum Distributions How to Handle Beneficiary Designations: Tips for Ensuring Your Assets Flow to the Right People Opinion: United Airline's Faustian Bargain with the PBGC Pension Group to Recoup Overpayments to Retired Steelworkers The Pitch: Retire Early -- the Catch: Brokers Want Your Cash Brief Analysis: The Coming Tax Tsunami Get a Cheap Loan Fast ... From Yourself First U.S. Baby Boomer Applies for Social Security United Taking a Flier with Pensions In Turbulent Times -- Like These -- the 'Rules' for Asset Allocation Often Go Out the Window A Symposium on Pension Finance Federal Court Dismisses Backloading Claim Opinion: Pensions and Palm-Greasing Overview: Court Permits Plan NRA Based on Service More Victories in the Federal Courts for Cash Balance Plan Sponsors State Street to Freeze Pension Plan and Boost 401(k) Offerings Market Chaos Testing Pension Managers Preparing for 2008 -- PPA Rules Affecting DB Lump Sums AT&T Violated the PDA by Excluding Pregnancy Leave Time in Retirement Benefit Calculations Delphi to Freeze Pension Plans COLAs Must be Included in Lump-Sum Benefits for Defined Benefit Plan Participants Overview: IRS Guidance on Partial Plan Terminations Rating the Online Retirement Planners: Five Programs Are Put Through Their Paces Flowchart of IRS Final Regulations Under Section 415 (PDF) Lawsuit Says Teachers Are Overcharged on Annuities; Sues Union for Endorsing Them Math Error Botches Enron Payouts The Supreme Court Will Decide Case that Addresses the Scope of ERISA Remedies (PDF) Overview: IRS Issues Final Regulations Relating to Phased Retirement IRS Finalizes Restrictions on NRA in Pension Plans Criminal Restitution, Alienation of Retirement Benefits and the Supreme Court State Law Misrepresentation of Benefits Claim Under ERISA Plan Not Basis for Preemption Faulty Description Of Benefits Constitutes Wrong Without Remedy Wall Street Journal Article Entitled 'Pension Tension: Figuring Out When to Lump It' Chrysler Pension Fund to Get $1.2 Billion UAW Says Chrysler Sale Includes Pension Contribution Daimler Sells Majority Stake and Offloads Its Pension Obligations Traditional Pension Plans Continue to Disappear at Large Companies Lincoln Financial Latest in Defined Benefit Freeze Trend Summary Plan Descriptions - Must Be Understandable Yet Legally Compliant AK Steel Plan Violated ERISA, Court Says, Upholding $46 Million Award to Participants How to Evaluate Your Mindset About Social Security Benefits Partial Pension a Way to Keep Baby Boomers on the Job Anchor Hocking Workers' Pensions Will Be Reduced Court Rules Boeing Cash Bal. Plan Doesn't Violate ERISA Age Discrimination/Backloading Restrictions Opinion: Who Benefits and Who Suffers Most from Cash-Balance Conversions Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal of Xerox Pension Case Overview: DOL Issues Interim Final Rules on QDROs Social Security in the Slow Lane - An Analysis of Benefits Chrysler Begins Round of Buyouts Goodyear Ends Pensions and Raises Retirees' Health Costs Hewitt Packard Freezes Defined Benefit Plan ERISA Benefits Litigation: Who Can Be Sued? Third Circuit, Another Victory for Plan Sponsors in Cash Balance Litigation Saga Pensions: To Choose an Annuity or To Take a Lump Sum? Judge Upholds Dun & Bradstreet Cash Balance Plan Overview: New Litigation Rules that Will Affect Claims Processing Summary of Notice 2007-6 Guidance on Cash Balance and Other Hybrid Defined Benefit Plans IRS To Begin Processing Suspended Cash Balance Plan Conversion Applications American Benefits Council Cash Balance Plan Litigation Chart as of December 6, 2006 (PDF) Oneida Sues PBGC Challenging Pension Termination Fees Age-Discrimination Claims Against Cash Balance Plans Still Have Life Commentary: How a Lawsuit Almost Strangled Cash Balance Pensions 10 Things Your 401(k) Provider Won't Tell You Understanding ERISA Plan Information Requests, Part 1 Understanding ERISA Plan Information Requests, Part 2 Age Discrimination Lawsuits Still Haunting Cash Balance Plan Sponsors PPA Added Clarity to Cash Balance Plan Rules, But More Guidance Needed, Panelists Say The Pension Protection Act Delivers Good News for Cash Balance and Other Hybrid Plans Overview: IRS Finalizes Heinz Anti-Cutback Regulations New Pension Law Shrinks Lump-Sum Payouts Overview: Court Rules that Service Cannot Define Normal Retirement Age New Law Allows Pension Distributions During Working or Phased Retirement Opinion: The Great Pension Swindle Federal Court Rulings Identify Employers As Liable Party in ERISA Benefits Action Opinion: Visions of the Golden Years in Retirement Dim As Pension Promises Fade Ford Offering 75,000 Employees Buyout Packages Editorial: Playing Wall Street Roulette with Retirement CFO.com: DuPont Reduces Defined Pension Benefits, Expects Future Earnings Improvement Pension Freeze Continues to Spread Employees: What You Need to Know About Cash Balance Pension Plans It's Not the Dependency Ratio, Stupid -- Another Take on Gladwell's 'The Risk Pool' The Risk Pool -- American Pension History and Today's Crisis Overview: IRS Issues Final Anti-Cutback Regulations for Defined Benefit Plans Ford Looking at Employee Buyouts Audio: Pension Reform Bill and Pension Anxiety The Far-Reaching Effects of Employment Discrimination on Retirement Plans The Future of Cash Balance Retirement Plans after Cooper v. IBM and the PPA Report: Executive Pensions Put Big Hurt on Firms Excerpts from Statements Regarding Hybrid Plans during Senate Debate August 3, 2006 (PDF) Court Rules Plan's Recognition of Former Distributions Invalid DOL's Pension Reform Web Site Overview: Seventh Circuit Harmonizes Cash Balance Plan Conversion Law Quotes from 7th Circuit Opinion on IBM's Cash Balance Plan Not Being Age Discriminatory IBM Wins; Text of 7th Circuit Decision in Cooper v. IBM Cash Balance Age Discrimination Case Equitable Cash Balance Plan Wins Discrimination Ruling Letter to Congress Concerning Hybrid Pension Plans and Pension Reform Legislation (PDF) Fiduciary Duty Breached Where Failure to Credit Accts Is Based on Misreading of Plan Language Defined Benefit Plan Terminations Increase The End of a Dream: Defined Benefit Plans Disappearing Retirement at 62: Is Receiving Social Security Early Worth It? Little Relief for PBGC's Growing Burden Overview: Split in Recent Cash Balance Plan Rulings (PDF) Overview: IRS Releases Final Revisions to Relative Value Regulations US Airways Pilot Retirees' Suit Against PBGC Dismissed Reply Brief of Appellants (Plan Participants) in 3d Circuit Cash Balance Plan Discrimination Case The Chilling Effects of Pension Freezes Cash Balance Plans: What Are They? Why Are They Controversial? What is Their Future? Is Your Pension Plan Retiring Before You? Transitioning Pensions from a Company-Sponsored Retirement Plan Are Pensions Destined for Retirement? America's Pensions in Peril-- Or Gone 'Specific Reasons' for Adverse Benefit Determination Must Be Reviewed under ERISA Claims Procedure Optimism about Pension Prospects May Not Be Realistic Pension Benefit Options for Consideration Upon Retirement Cautionary Tales: Penalties for Failure to Timely Provide Requested Documents Penalty for Not Providing Plan Related Information (PDF - see p.3) It's Just a Matter of Time Till Your Company Drops Its Defined-Benefit Retirement Plan More Employers Likely to Freeze Defined Benefit Plans, According to Hewitt Survey The Rush to Shut Down Pensions Article Abstract: When Are Releases of Claims for ERISA Plan Benefits Effective? Opinion: The Defined Benefit Pension Crisis SERPs Prone to Miscalculation (PDF) Protect Yourself from Pension Freezes Court Ruling Favors Cash Balance Conversions Why Disparate Impact Claims for Age Discrimination Still Face an Uphill Battle IRS Relative Values Disclosure Requirements for Qualified Pension Plans Subject to ERISA Company Sponsored Pensions in Peril Cash Balance Pension Plans and Older Workers Self-Auditing Crucial as IRS Raises Scrutiny Molly Ivins Says Making Pensions Disappear Is a New Corporate Art Form PBGC Pays Pensions At Huffy Corporation Defined Benefit Plans Become More Valuable Retirees Lose Out as Bankrupt Companies Cut Pensions - Airline Pilots Are Extreme Example 401(k) Is Now the Main Retirement Plan at Most Big Firms Life After Federal Government: When to Retire Depends on Age and Service Years The Game of Life Expectancy: How Long You'll Live Is the Critical, but Elusive, Planning Guide Statement Of PBGC Executive Director Bradley Belt On Airline Bankruptcy Filings Triage for Your Retirement Planning Pensions Are at Heart of Boeing Walkout by Machinists Opinion: Ensuring Retirement Income Security with Cash Balance Plans (PDF) Commentary: Changing Times for Worker Benefits U.S. Judge Approves US Airways Pension Claims Deal with PBGC 3rd Circuit Court Rules Employees May Sue under ERISA When Company's Stock Crashes Overview: ERISA Bars Pension Plan's 'Break-in-Service' Exclusion PBGC Protects Pensions At Westpoint Stevens When IRAs Meet Chapter 11 Insurance Companies Aim to Breathe New Life Into Old Product: Annuities Summary of IRS Final and Proposed 411(d)(6) Regulations (PDF) Union Sues Boeing Over Early Retirement Benefits Lost as a Result of Sale of Division Safeguard your pension with a lump sum? Court approves IBM pension conversion settlement Shifting Risk: Workers Today Near Retirement More Vulnerable and with Lower Pensions Checking Your Pension's Health and What It Means to You Retiree Runaround: Challenging a Pension Benefits Decision -- Not for the Faint of Heart Hewlett Packard Co. Is Phasing Out Defined Benefit Plan; Will Boost 401(k) Match Pension Bill Could Cut Lump-Sum Payouts Rising Tensions Over Pensions: The Bushies Want Companies to Rev Up Retirement Plans Pension Plans Can Restore Improperly Discontinued Benefits Overview: Disparate Impact Claims Available Under ADEA, Supreme Court Rules Commentary and Background on the Supreme Court IRA/Bankruptcy Decision Commentary: Supreme Court Issues Important ADEA Opinion in Smith v. City of Jackson A 401(k) Fleecing of America: Will Your Money Be There When You Need It? Motorola to phase out pension plan SBC Shift to Pension Plan Shows Defined Benefit Plans Aren't Quite Dead Yet Company Breached Fiduciary Duty by Sending Incorrect Benefits Statements Too Much Company Stock in 401(k)s: Some Planners Think Zero Is Right Level; All Urge Caution Mergers and Retiree Questions: Benefits Changes, Usually for the Worse, Often Follow M&A PBGC Takes $2.3 Billion Pension Loss From US Airways SBC Dropping Cash Balance Pension Plan in Favor of a Traditional Plan Design Cash Balance Litigation Trend Continues One man's retirement math: Social Security wins Cash Balance Plan Sixth Circuit Court Ruling Leaves Ambiguity in Its Wake IBM Pays Out $320 Million In Partial Settlement Company Focus: 40 Companies Sitting on Pension Time Bombs IRS Delays Implementation of Disclosure Rules for Certain Plans Offering Lump Sum Payment Cash Balance Design Not Age-Biased, Says Federal District Judge Treasury and IRS Withdraw Proposed Cash Balance Regulations Cash-Balance Lawsuits In Just a Year, Cash-Balance Plans Go From Panacea to Pariah QDRO Errors: Plans Sue to Recover Overpayments Sixth Circuit to Review Lump Sum Calculation Case Eighth Circuit Applies Ten-Year Statute of Limitations to Lawsuit for Benefits Under ERISA Retired Formica workers lose effort to stop correction of overpayments 2nd American Express National Survey Finds Worker Financial Stress Lingering Into 2004 Treasury And IRS Propose Guidance On Pension Plan Amendments That Simplify Distribution Alternatives N.C. Bar Withdraws Action Against Enrolled Actuaries (See P. 3) Greenspan's got his eye on your retirement -- for all the wrong reasons CSM: Pension Apprehension MPR: Private pension plans in Minnesota coming up short USA Today: Many retirees select lump sum
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