Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JANUARY 27, 2023

13, 2023), the court granted a motion to dismiss a pension plan participant’s claim that the plan was equitably estopped from recouping overpaid plan benefits. Upon termination of his employment, the participant requested and received from the plan a disclosure estimating that his pension would be $6,225.24 App’x 588 (6th Cir.

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Money Talk

JANUARY 4, 2024

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 18, 2022

Then, when they’re ready, they want to understand how to turn their pension savings into an income for life. Companies might feel that providing a generous pension scheme is the most effective way to discharge their obligation to look after employees in later life. What’s more, our understanding of retirement is becoming more nuanced.

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McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

AUGUST 15, 2023

In an acknowledgment of uncommon market conditions and their corresponding effect on defined benefit pension plan funding, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the PBGC) provided a welcome one-time waiver for some underfunded pension plans under Section 4010 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Employee Benefits

AUGUST 2, 2024

The SCA UK Pension Plan, which is sponsored by global hygiene and health firm Essity Group, has completed a £1.1 billion pensions buy-in. The transaction, which was carried out with Legal and General, secures the benefits of 5,900 retirees and 3,600 deferred members. The post SCA UK Pension Plan completes £1.1

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Background When Paul Pasko retired from Bradford County after 25 years of service, he withdrew his pension contributions of approximately $88,000 as a lump sum. He then began receiving monthly pension payments of $1,668.23, funded entirely by the employers remaining contribution of approximately $219,000.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Natata/Shutterstock Need to know: The abolition of the pensions lifetime allowance in April will require an overhaul of employee communications, and a revaluation of pension scheme design and administration, including opportunities to simplify the scheme and reduce the cost of running it.

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Employee Benefits

JULY 26, 2024

Members of the Box Clever pension scheme will receive their pension benefits in full following an in-principle deal between The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and ITV. Employees were then transferred to the new organisation and enrolled in the Box Clever pension scheme.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appointed Laura Trott MBE as minister for pensions, after predecessor Alex Burghart officially held the role for less than one month. Trott was appointed on 27 October, and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made the announcement on 7 November via its official Twitter account.

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 3, 2022

Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , an Ohio appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Industrial Commission that had refused to consider various fringe benefits in the form of health and welfare benefits, as well as the employer’s contribution to several pension funds as “wages” or “earnings” under Ohio Rev.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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. This story starts back in 1980.

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Money Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

Tax Bracket Triggers - When earnings are added to a pension, Social Security, RMDs, and other taxable income, planning is needed to avoid a higher tax rate or Medicare premium. Employer Benefits - Workers age 65+ at large companies can still be covered by group health insurance, thereby postponing Medicare premiums.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 9, 2023

Travel business Thomas Cook has completed a £900 million bulk purchase annuity buy-in transaction for its UK pension scheme. Aviva insured the defined benefit (DB) pension liabilities for more than 12,500 scheme members following the liquidation of the business in 2019.

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Employee Benefits

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Workers employed by Aston Martin have threatened the car manufacturer with strike action over changes to their company pension scheme. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham explained that the union will back members if they decide to take industrial action to defend their pensions.

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Employee Benefits

JULY 29, 2024

The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s ruling that a written actuarial confirmation was required where an alteration to the Virgin Media scheme’s rules affected pension benefits for past or future service benefits.

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 17, 2024

Credt: P Maxwell Photography/Shutterstock The pension pots-for-life plan take the onus off of employees to keep track of their pensions as they move jobs. Clarification is needed on how employers would manage the process of putting employees’ contributions into many different pension pots. But it’s all in the execution.”

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JULY 11, 2022

On July 8, 2022, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”) published its much anticipated final rule on the special financial assistance (“SFA”) available to certain troubled multiemployer plans under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”).

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

AUGUST 3, 2021

This episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief is the first 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). JUSTIN ALEX : Sure.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 11, 2024

The bank also maintained a 1% increase in non-pensionable benefits , which was implemented last year.” At the same time, our approach needs to be consistent with our overall objective of price stability. As part of the negotiations with the union, the bank agreed a pay award for 2024/25 of 4%.

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Employee Benefits

JULY 24, 2023

Several strike dates due to take place on the London Underground have been suspended following negotiations about potential reforms of Transport for London’s (TFL) pension scheme. A central government-demanded review of TFL’s pension arrangements, which is a condition of the 1 June 2021 £1.1

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Therefore, people’s pension savings will likely start catching up with the frozen Allowance. This could particularly affect those who never check the value of their pension or haven’t done so for some time. Positive pension fund growth as well as a pay rise may easily push them over the LTA before they know it.

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Employee Benefits

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There is the potential for a tribunal to award up to six years back pay, plus interest; an award may also result in liabilities for pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) and pension benefits or pension loss. Equal pay claims are notoriously difficult to pursue and defend, and expensive to lose.

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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For the first time since the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) introduced the concept of withdrawal liability, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced a proposed.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

At Ashurst, we closely consider the pension and benefits we offer and focus particularly on how we engage our people in these offerings to ensure they are of maximum benefit. Because pension forms part of an employee’s finances, tackling the broader topic of finances also increases engagement with pensions.

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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

JULY 8, 2022

Changes to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program announced Wednesday by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) will improve the ability of underfunded multiemployer defined benefit (DB) pension plans to.

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Work and Pensions Committee is calling for trials of automatic appointments with the Pension Wise service as part of its new ‘Stronger Nudge’ interventions. The post Early and multiple interventions will improve pensions engagement! appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Offering excellent retirement benefits for an employee can be useful for small companies who strive to attract and retain the right talent and skilled professionals. Some of the reasons are: Around 75% of the employees expect their employees to provide better retirement benefit pension plans. Work Smart.

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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

MARCH 14, 2023

A new rule proposed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) would increase the certainty of withdrawal liability determinations for multiemployer benefit plans and likely help prevent withdrawal liability disputes from going to arbitration and litigation, PBGC officials say.

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Almost half (49%) of working adults have changed their retirement plans because of the cost-of-living crisis , according to new research by the Pensions Management Institute. The professional body that supports and develops UK pension schemes surveyed 2,030 employees with pensions.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 4, 2024

The lifetime allowance (LTA) is one of those subjects referenced in lots of pension literature , and yet, it only affects a minority of people. On the face of it, its removal has many benefits, including helping certain cohorts of people to fall back in love with pensions (and work). Ah, maybe not quite a disappearing act then.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This episode is the final installment of our three-part series on a new special financial assistance program created by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for troubled multiemployer plans and the interim guidance issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regarding the program.

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International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

MAY 9, 2023

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 authorized special financial assistance (SFA) through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to eligible severely underfunded multiemployer plans. ARPA added section 4262 to Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

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Employee Benefits

APRIL 29, 2024

A further 20% thought employees were not aware that certain benefits were available to them. The most popular benefits currently being offered by the employers surveyed included flexible working, enhanced pension benefits, enhanced holiday leave, healthcare and or dental care, and free food or drink in the workplace.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As noted below, SRCs need not include any amount for pension benefits.). This calculation excludes the impact of changes to actuarial assumptions ( g. changes in interest or mortality assumptions) and compensation; and there is no adjustment for vesting conditions. (As

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Employee Benefits

MAY 13, 2024

Since then, it has amended this by adding a neurodiversity benefit to its private medical scheme, which it runs as a trust, and allowing them to join a gym during any month or select an electric car from car leasing provider Arval. This helps to increase staff engagement with their pension scheme.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 7, 2024

This will include the impact of the 10% national living wage increase and enhancement of its pension benefits, with staff now able to access up to 6% employer contributions. The bakery chain also implemented an 8% overall wage and salary inflation in 2023 and expects to make around an increase of around 9.5%

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