If the source of funds is a DB plan, the plan's actuaries will calculate
the commuted value of the plan — that is, the amount that is equivalent to the present value of the pension payments you could have elected to wait and receive in the future.
Not exact matches
Many retirees face the choice
of taking monthly payments from their employer's pension
plan or transferring the
commuted value into an investment account.
(3) The
commuted value of a member's early retirement pension must be not less than the
commuted value of the member's pension benefit under the pension
plan.
The surrender
value can be either used to buy a deferred annuity
plan form the company or 1 / 3rd
of the
value can be
commuted and the rest has to be used to buy annuity.