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... Index Engines Enterprise eDiscovery Platform Index Engines, the leader in enterprise discovery solutions, today announced that Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has selected the Index Engines Enterprise eDiscovery Platform to perform comprehensive data ... files, as well as metadata information. The resulting indexes can be easily searched by PBGC paralegals, researchers or corporate counsel representatives and data retrieved as needed for ad hoc discovery requests. Ultimately, with the ...

This job posting closes April 8, 2008 Position Level: GS 11/12 Position Reports To: Judith M. Weiss, Library Manager Partial listing of job duties: Provides comprehensive reference, research and instructional services to individuals and groups within PBGC. Responds accurately and...

As Susan Weiswasser reports in the January issue of The Pomerantz Monitor, the economic slump has hit pension funds hard. The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimates that the value of investments in each of private sector ... tightening funding requirements while raising funding obligations. Sponsors claimed that reliance on old rules and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which insures the retirement savings of 45 million Americans, was insufficient to guarantee ...

... bankruptcy protection. To deal with such issues, the PBGC has added to its website a page entitled "Chrysler Pension Plans: Information for Workers and Retirees". As to the current status of those plans, the page states that Chrysler's ... pension plans sponsored by Chrysler for its workers and retirees. The plans remain ongoing and are insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. As the bankruptcy process unfolds, the PBGC will work with Chrysler, its unions, and all other stakeholders to ...

... sharing. And it gets even better for plan years starting in 2008. For employers with defined benefit plans covered by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), these plans are no longer subject to the 25% combined defined benefit/defined contribution ... % of compensation for the defined contribution plan. And this opens the door for substantial contributions to cash balance pension plans by "professional service employers", (law firms, accounting firms, and medical practices) with more than ...

... each plan to which the order applies. The dollar amount or percentage (or the method of determining the amount or percentage) of the benefit to be paid to the alternate payee. The number of payments or time period to which the order applies. The Plan ... Pensions Through Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (PDF, 100 pages). The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation responsible for the administration insolvent defined benefit pension plans issued the booklet, Qualified Domestic Relations Orders and ...

MEGAN MCARDLE: The Incredible Shrinking Public Pension Funds. "This is not, it should be emphasized, exclusively a problem of public sector pensions; private firms are also underfunded. But the scale is vastly different. According to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which regulates and insures pensions, the total deficit in private plans covering about 34 million workers was a little over 10 billion as of September ...

Delta Airlines recently obtained approval to terminate its pilots' pension plan as part of its bankruptcy restructuring plan. This essentially means that the plan will be turned over to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation - a government entity that insures...

Joshua Gotbaum, an operating partner at private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital, is expected to be named director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the White House said Monday.

... contribution accounts are even more limited than for defined benefit plans. For these plans at least, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBBC) does have its Pension Search database, but it's only useful to assist ... Security Administration which receives Schedule SSA information from the Department of Labor each year for terminated employees with vested benefits. However, the information is only as current as the date that the employer left his former employer. The National Registry of ...