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Outlawing Pension-Funding Shortfalls, Eric D. Chason
Outlawing Pension-Funding Shortfalls, Eric D. Chason
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Before ERISA, employees faced a large risk that their employers would default or renege on pension obligations. By creating a federal guarantor of pensions (the PBGC), ERISA has greatly reduced this risk. All else being equal, low-risk pensions are worth more to employees but cost more to provide. Congress has never had a coherent policy on who should pay for these extra costs. Moreover, legal scholars have failed to create a theoretical framework for dealing with these costs, focusing instead on the supposed "moral hazard" that the PBGC guaranty creates. This Article inserts itself into the scholarly vacuum, asserting that …
Joint And Survivor Annuities Under Erisa -- The Gamble On Survival, John W. Lee
Joint And Survivor Annuities Under Erisa -- The Gamble On Survival, John W. Lee
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