Sentences with phrase «benefit pension plans just»

Teacher pension plans are already in bed with Wall Street; the «retirement security crisis» narrative ignores data showing that elderly Americans are doing better and better; today's defined benefit pension plans just don't work that well for most teachers; and the costs of today's pension plans are enormous and are affecting schools and other public services.

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Trapani and Shindler have also discarded their old pension plan entirely since the «defined benefit plan» was set up to provide payouts only to employees who stayed until age 60, which just didn't meet the needs of the company's somewhat transient work force.

Her experience ranges from consulting businesses regarding benefit plans (insurance, profit sharing, pensions, etc.), to helping individuals whether they are just starting a family or managing the great wealth they have accumulated.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty thinks that expanding Canada Pension Plan benefits might be a good idea, but just not now.

This is true for all teachers, not just charters, but charters participating in pension plans will have to contribute the same amount as all other schools, even if their teachers aren't benefitting and they weren't responsible for the accumulated debt.

And just how do the teachers unions, which demand defined benefit pension plans for its members, treat their own employees?

Moreover, as with defending job security as a cheaper way to attract decent teachers, defined - benefit pension plans have big downsides with hidden costs: They make it unappealing for a talented person to work as a teacher for just part of a career, make it hard for teachers to move around, offer huge bonuses to older teachers who don't add any special value, etc. (And this is all viewing education in isolation — committing future taxpayers to pay for pensions teachers are earning now is going to mean spending less on other priorities in the future.

Only 35 % are in Defined Benefit pensions plans, 18 % are in Defined Contribution plans and just 15 % are in group RRSPs (typically younger investors.)

The days of working 40 years for a single employer, then living on a Defined Benefit pension plan, are just about done.

«Those who are in defined benefit pension plans in Canada are in a good place relative to just about any other group.

Since I have a defined benefit pension to live on in retirement, I plan on building up my TFSA portfolio and just withdrawing dividends for any extra income that I need in retirement (new car, big vacation, etc.) I don't plan on touching the capital ever.

Or just really integrating Social Security and any traditional defined benefit pension that someone has into their plan as well.

With her preference to pay herself dividends from her business, which do not qualify for Canada Pension Plan benefits, it makes little sense to raise her final payout just to add a year to salary, pay tax and obtain income for filling up her small RRSP space.

Using just this data, the couple's initial retirement income at 62 would be rental income of $ 31,200 a year, pension income of $ 59,400, RRSP income of $ 61,350 and TFSA income of $ 14,625 a year for total income of $ 166,575 plus two reduced Canada Pension Plan benefits totaling $ pension income of $ 59,400, RRSP income of $ 61,350 and TFSA income of $ 14,625 a year for total income of $ 166,575 plus two reduced Canada Pension Plan benefits totaling $ Pension Plan benefits totaling $ 20,556.

And as this column has pointed out before, retiring in this second decade of the 21st century poses challenges for just about any healthy person who lacks an inflation - indexed employer - sponsored Defined Benefit (DB) pension plan.

Employees may have just lost their job, or are about to start a new one and want clarification on their rights and options, including pension and benefit plans.

«The interesting thing in this case is that in interpreting the plan the court looked at the effect on all plan members, not just between Mr. Shaw and HOOPP,» said Christopher Mayer, an associate with Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, who was presenting at a Nov. 8 seminar on recent developments on pensions and benefits law.