
Newsmakers
PBGC to Provide Nearly $700 Million to 3 Insolvent Multiemployer Plans
Plans covering over 5,550 participants have been approved to receive bailout funds under the American Rescue Plan.
The trend is mounting for corporate sponsors to shunt liabilities to insurers. But some don’t want to do that, and others can’t.
Plans often do piecemeal deals, to reduce the chances of everything going down the tubes.
Multiemployer pension reform has been ruled eligible to be included in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.