Traditional pensions are employer-funded plans that pay a fixed amount each month.
Both early renewals and self-funded plans will have the effect of keeping more groups off the exchanges, thereby blunting the savings for high-risk policyholders.
With massively under-funded plans, like those at United Airlines, being terminated and dumped onto the PBGC, the PBGC cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the practices of its pension consultants.
The House wants to ban new government-funded plans from covering abortion at all, while the Senate will require patients pay separate premiums with their own money for abortion as a supplemental benefit.
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UnitedHealth, the nation's largest insurer, is lowering the threshold for administering self-funded plans to as few as 10 workers, from 100, in at least some markets, according to emails from UnitedHealth sales executives to an insurance broker.
In addition, higher contributions for Medicare and Social Security are expected while 401(k)s and other self-funded retirement plans continue to replace employer-funded defined benefit plans, particularly for state and local government workers.
State and local government outlays and employment, normally rocks of stability, are declining due to budget deficits and vastly under-funded pension plans.
But she also warned against governments across Europe loosening restrictions on restoration work in the current economic climate, and of privately funded restoration plans not complying with strict guidelines.
Companies that once helped shoulder the retirement burden through funded pension plans are cutting back their commitments now that low investment returns, low interest rates and higher life expectancy have created frightening deficits.
With the transition from fully-insured health benefits to employer-sponsored self-funded health benefit plans, employers now seek to find ways to transfer their employees from healthcare quality and manpower shortage areas to providers offering measurable higher quality, better customer service, and better outcomes.
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Ultimately, employers and employees want to see the plans fully funded.
Until 2002, both states kept their pension plans adequately funded.
In 2007, over half (51) of the 100 pensions plans were fully funded (100% or more) compared to only 5 in 2012.
Like traditional pension plans, and unlike 401(k) plans, cash-balance plans are wholly funded by employers and insured by the federal Pension Benefit Guarantee.
The building of the new campus in Thurrock - due to open in September 2014 - and plans for Basildon have been funded separately.
The value of these has soared thanks to the stockmarket's vertiginous rise and, as a result, some pension plans have become over-funded (assets exceed liabilities).
In other international news, Chinese experts welcome plans for a development bank funded by the BRICS nations that is expected to provide loans for infrastructure construction in the developing world.
Plans for partly government-funded health care in the U.S. have kept the European pharmaceutical sector subdued in the 12 months since Obama came into office, with its leading sector index up just 10.4% in that time period while Europe's top 500 stocks are up 35.8%, according to Pope.
He says that almost 75% of World Health Organization member countries have some sort of plan to improve physical activity, but only 55% of the plans have been put into effect and only 42% of the plans in effect are well-funded.
The funded individual accounts envisaged under the government's plans have been set up, but so far there is little money in them.
Most expensive privately funded project in U.S. history still plans to open later this year on 67 acres with 4 hotels, 1 casino.
But Macquarie Group analyst Steve Harris points out that Italy's banking system is generally well funded by deposits, and Peace is encouraged by plans to recapitalize struggling Spanish savings banks.
Earlier this month, President George W. Bush signed a rewrite of the nation's pension laws that will likely hasten the disappearance of traditional defined-benefit pension plans--the kind that are funded entirely by the company and promise retirees a fixed stipend each month for life.
Though the timeline remains unclear, plans for a new, vastly expanded port funded by Kuwait has stirred debate, as it could eventually bring thousands more people to Socotra each year.
So far, the court has ducked the key issue: whether school-voucher plans which allow parents to use state-funded vouchers to send their children to private religious schools breach the separation of church and state enshrined in the first amendment.
Also keep in mind that these companies have allowed their employee retirement plans to remain seriously underfunded while managing to continue to put away millions of tax free dollars in their executive retirement plans, all of which appear to be fully funded.
On Dec. 4, it announced plans to accelerate a 25-cent dividend payment normally funded in January to Dec. 25.
Christian Concern funded Ms Chaplin's case and said it would support her if she plans to appeal to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
Later employment minister Tony McNulty told BBC 2's Daily Politics that any "tax cuts or adjustments there may be" would be "funded in a transparent fashion, albeit from borrowing" while the Conservatives' plans were "pie-in-the-sky on a hope and a prayer".
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