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Companies that are offering lump-sum pension buyouts

10/17/2012 | Business Insurance

One of the most recent developments in the defined benefit pension plan field is the move of employers to offer certain plan participants, especially former employees not yet receiving benefits, the opportunity to convert their future monthly annuity into a cash lump-sum payment.

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Retirees take some lumps from lump-sum offers

10/17/2012 | Investment News

Former employees tempted by pension buyouts, but most better off with income stream

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Companies with lump-sum pension offers

10/17/2012 | Investment News

A slideshow of companies that are offering lump-sum pension buyouts

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Companies pitch lump sums to dig out of pension holes

10/13/2012 | Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Former longtime employees of two big Atlanta companies recently got an intriguing offer – a check for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Decline in pension plans leaves many Ohioans unprepared

10/12/2012 | Dayton Daily News

Fewer Ohio businesses are offering defined-benefit pension plans, as employers attempt to reduce future funding obligations and shift retirement liabilities to workers.

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Pension Rights Advocates Urge Caution In Altering Rules on Deferred Vested Benefits

10/02/2012 | Bloomberg BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter

Pension rights advocates are concerned that a proposed Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service regulation would delegate authority to the IRS commissioner to create special rules for satisfying notice requirements related to deferred vested benefits. [PDF]

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Women face host of obstacles to retirement

09/26/2012 | USA Today

When Jeanne Majors, 63, took an early retirement in December 2005, she assumed that she would pick up a part-time job and be in good financial shape. She didn't know that her future would quickly fall apart.

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Will pension plans stage a comeback?

09/25/2012 | Investment News

A looming retirement crisis prompts a rethink about DB and DC models

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Speakers See Need to Simplify Pensions But Spar Over Changing Retirement System

09/25/2012 | Bloomberg BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter

Pension plans need to be simplified, agreed representatives of the pension plan community at a Sept. 20 roundtable discussion before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. [PDF]

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Delphi retirees gaining ground in fight to restore pensions

09/23/2012 | Dayton Daily News

Many of the nation’s 20,000 Delphi salaried retirees believe they are gaining ground in their three-year fight to have their full pensions restored.

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