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415 and 401(k) COLAs Revisited | Blogging Employee Benefits
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October 26, 2006. 415 and 401(k) COLAs Revisited. 8212; Fuguerre @ 2:27 pm. So we have the official word from the IRS on next year’s 415 limits. As previously noted here. But what if you wish to project an advance estimate of a future threshold, such as we did back here. When I forwarded inquiries about the innards of the little spreadsheet I’d been given over to my pet actuary, I was sent a copy of this IRS information letter from 1993. Limitation on Annual Addditions to Defined Contribution Plan. The r...
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Waiver of PBGC Premium Penalties | Blogging Employee Benefits
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November 17, 2006. Waiver of PBGC Premium Penalties. 8212; Fuguerre @ 7:45 am. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Has codified it policy guidance on premium penalty waivers as an appendix to its premium payment regulation, effective for PBGC actions taken on or after December 18, 2006. [ FR E6-19436. The PBGC waives the penalty on failure to pay PBGC premiums most often in the case of “reasonable cause,” generally described as facts and circumstances meeting two conditions –. Fill in your details ...
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Working on Solving the Annuity Puzzle | Blogging Employee Benefits
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October 25, 2006. Working on Solving the Annuity Puzzle. 8212; Fuguerre @ 7:04 am. An excellent summary of the annuitization issues is presented in. Lifetime Annuities for US: Evaluating the Efficacy of Policy Interventions in Life Annuity Markets. Written by William M. Gentry and Casey G. Rothschild for the American Council of Capital Formation. The paper focuses on the potential value of two different porposed tax incentives designed to encourage voluntary annuitization of retirement savings: one, excl...
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2007 Pension Thresholds | Blogging Employee Benefits
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October 18, 2006. 8212; Fuguerre @ 8:35 am. Reporting the September 2006 CPI. This morning, I can finalize my previous estimates. Of COLAs for key pension thresholds. These numbers remain unofficial. Since of course only the IRS has the authority to publish the official numbers. But relying on the same rounding conventions used by the agency for prior years, the numbers I expect to see are as follows –. Limitation on Elective Deferrals. Limitation on Catchup Deferrals. Limitation on Annual Additions.
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WordDepressed | Blogging Employee Benefits
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February 21, 2006. Filed under: P&B Blog. 8212; Fuguerre @ 3:38 pm. Been a while since I posted about blogging itself. Instead of skating around through recent traffic on pensions, benefits, and compensation. WordPress hiccups force me to take a little break. And I’m closing out one sidebar I’d been keeping for simple news tracking. Microsoft has already stolen too much productivity from me; I’ll just find some other place to keep news clippings. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Build a...
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Oregon PERS Amendment Not Unconstitutional | Blogging Employee Benefits
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October 24, 2006. Oregon PERS Amendment Not Unconstitutional. 8212; Fuguerre @ 3:24 pm. No State shall . . . pass any . . . Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts. That makes for a reasonably interesting blogging afternoon, to be able to quote from that legal document. National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Atchinson Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. Quoting from its own earlier decision in. Dodge v. Board of Education. Maintaining that –. Robertson v. Kulongoski. OR Sup.Ct., SC S50593, 3/8/05], t...You a...
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By Any Other Name | Blogging Employee Benefits
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November 1, 2006. By Any Other Name. Filed under: P&B Blog. 8212; Fuguerre @ 6:17 pm. This is not the first time. I’ve amended the title of my pensions and benefits weblogging. Except whereas my previous change came on the heels of discovering a non-EB blog that had already been using the name I’d originally given this effort, this time I’m risking blurring lines with one of the best teams in my own field, the new Pension and Benefits Blog. A veritable who’s who of the industry. Leave a Comment ». Get ev...
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Expect $15,500 Elective Deferral Cap for 2007 | Blogging Employee Benefits
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August 16, 2006. Expect $15,500 Elective Deferral Cap for 2007. 8212; Fuguerre @ 4:26 pm. But without getting overbearing with my cautious side, as much as ever slap this weblog’s Disclaimer. The point being that the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gave us the July 2006 CPI-U. Update: See my 10/18 post. Reflecting full 3rd quarter CPI. 4 Comments ». Any crystal ball on whether the 401k “Catch-Up” limit will change for 2007? Comment by Page Stowers. 8212; August 17, 2006 @ 3:19 pm. 8230;] With the BLS reporti...
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Proposed New Accounting Standard for Social Insurance | Blogging Employee Benefits
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October 24, 2006. Proposed New Accounting Standard for Social Insurance. Filed under: Social Security. 8212; Fuguerre @ 12:10 am. The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board. Has published Preliminary Views. Toward amending its Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards No. 17,. Accounting for Social Insurance. Included in the FASAB’s massive. Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts and Standards. FASAB Issues Preliminary Views Regarding Accounting for Social Insurance. Alternati...
