Newsmakers
Biden Appoints New Members to PBGC Advisory Committee
The four new appointees will join three other existing members representing employers, participants and the public.
Tag: PBGC
Pensions
PBGC Provides Financial Assistance to Struggling Metal Workers Pension
The Sheet Metal Workers Local Pension Plan from Massillon, Ohio, will receive nearly $29 million in assistance after over a year of partial payouts to beneficiaries.
Pensions
PBGC Provides Financial Assistance to Struggling Metal Workers Pension
The Sheet Metal Workers Local Pension Plan from Massillon, Ohio, will receive nearly $29 million in assistance after over a year of partial payouts to beneficiaries.
Asset Allocation
Multiemployer Plan Funding Levels Down Sharply in First Half of 2022
The total funding shortfall for more than 1,200 plans balloons by $85 billion in six months.
Asset Allocation
Teamsters’ Plan to Claim Most of Latest PBGC Aid
More than $800 million from Special Financial Assistance Program will help two pension funds covering more than 22,000 participants.
Regulation
PBGC Finalizes Rescue of Ailing Multiemployer Pension Plans
The aid, which has been operating on an interim basis, has already protected nearly 130,000 individuals’ pension benefits across some 560 businesses.
Regulation
PBGC Soon to Release New Final Rule on Special Financial Assistance for Multiemployer Plans
Public commenters expressed concerns over investment restrictions, discount rate calculations.
Newsmakers
PBGC Approves Bailouts for Five More Multiemployer Plans in May
The agency has now approved more than $6.2 billion in special financial assistance funds to cover nearly 120,000 participants.
Newsmakers
PBGC Approves Over $300 Million in SFA Funds to 3 Pensions
The struggling multiemployer plans cover nearly 2,000 participants.
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.
News
New York City-Based Multiemployer Plans Approved for PBGC Bailout
The Local 584 Plan and the Milk Industry Office Employees Pension will receive funds under the Special Financial Assistance Program.
Newsmakers
Teamsters Pension Applies for Bailout After $58 Million Legal Appeal Dismissed
A circuit court has denied the New York multiemployer pension’s attempt to recover withdrawal liabilities from the bankrupt firm’s new owner.
Newsmakers
PBGC Approves $100.5 Million Bailout of New Jersey Pension Plan
Teamsters Local 408 is the 5th plan to be approved under the American Rescue Plan Act’s Special Financial Assistance program.
Newsmakers
PBGC Bails Out Struggling NY Pension With $112.6 Million in Aid
The Local 138 Pension Plan becomes the first multiemployer plan to receive funds under the American Rescue Plan Act.
Regulation
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Delphi Pension Termination Case
The lack of action by the high court ends more than 12 years of litigation after the General Motors unit’s pension plan was terminated.