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PBGC (Slightly) Opens Door to Exceptions From Special Withdrawal Liability Rules for SFA Multiemployer Pension Plans

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

As previously discussed , the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the “PBGC”) issued final regulations in July 2022 for plans that receive special financial assistance (“SFA”) under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”).

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Financial Implications of Working in Later Life

Money Talk

of Americans age 65+ were working in 2022. Employer Benefits - Workers age 65+ at large companies can still be covered by group health insurance, thereby postponing Medicare premiums. Other benefits also continue. After declining in early years of the pandemic, the percentage of older adults in the labor force is increasing.

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42 Years in the Making: PBGC Proposes Regulation on Interest Rate for Withdrawal Liability Calculations

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

A hotly debated (and litigated) issue for multiemployer pension plans in recent years has been the appropriate interest rate to determine a multiemployer pension plan’s liabilities when calculating the plan’s underfunding for withdrawal liability purposes. Comments on the proposed regulations are due by November 14, 2022.

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ARPA Final Rule Expected in January

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

Fast forwarding to the year 2022, will it be a happy new year? Many multiemployer plans and their participants, contributing employers and unions certainly hope so, as they eagerly anticipate the issuance of a Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”) final rule that may answer the question for them.

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[Podcast]: Special Financial Assistance for Multi-employer Pension Plans (Part 2)

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

This episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief is the second of our three-part series analyzing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) guidance on the new special financial assistance program for troubled multiemployer pension plans that was created by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

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Ohio Court Says Healthcare Benefits and Pension Contributions Not to be Used in Computing AWW

The Workcomp Writer

Industrial Comm’n of Ohio , 2022-Ohio-1824, 2022 Ohio App. LEXIS 1697 (May 31, 2022)]. The claimant requested that his average weekly wage be adjusted to include not only his hourly compensation of $36.78, plus health and welfare benefits at a rate of $8.80 Background. to $1,545.10.

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Do employees really need to be concerned about the Lifetime Allowance right now?

Employee Benefits

As of December 2022, the UK Inflation rate stood at 10.5% Therefore, people’s pension savings will likely start catching up with the frozen Allowance. If employees have more than one pension, they will need to add up what they’ve accumulated across all their pensions to work out the full amount.

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