2006 Essential Guide to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) - Retirement Plan Administration, Benefits, Forms, Filings, Documents, Rulemaking (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM presents an enormous library of federal government documents and publications covering all aspects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Information and material from the PBGC includes: Forms, filings, regulations, publications, reports, laws, retirement planning, opinion letters, rulemaking procedures, plan administration, processes, policies, participants and major plans in the news, services, programs, and benefits. “PBGC was created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary private pension plans, provide timely and uninterrupted payment of pension benefits, and keep pension insurance premiums at a minimum. Defined benefit pension plans promise to pay a specified monthly benefit at retirement, commonly based on salary and years on the job. PBGC is not funded by general tax revenues. PBGC collects insurance premiums from employers that sponsor insured pension plans, earns money from investments and receives funds from pension plans it takes over. PBGC pays monthly retirement benefits, up to a guaranteed maximum, to about 518,000 retirees in 3,479 pension plans that ended. Including those who have not yet retired and participants in multiemployer plans receiving financial assistance, PBGC is responsible for the current and future pensions of about 1,061,000 people. PBGC's Two Pension Insurance Programs - The single employer program protects 34.6 million workers and retirees in 29,651 pension plans. The multiemployer program protects 9.8 million workers and retirees in 1,587 pension plans. Multiemployer plans are set up by collectively bargained agreements involving more than one unrelated employer, generally in one industry.” This incredible CD-ROM is packed with over 32,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.