Sentences with phrase «pension benefit does»

Because they must contribute 3.1 percent of their salary for the same benefit, their net pension benefit doesn't reach positive territory until they've been on the job for 16 years.

Teachers qualify for very little in the way of retirement benefits during the first half of their career because pension benefits don't accrue evenly.

The cowards wanted to hand over an economic benefit without raising taxes, because the rise in pension benefits does not have any immediate cash outlay if one can bend the will of the actuary to assume that there will be even higher investment earnings in the future to make up the additional benefits.

Not exact matches

Not only does the process tend to punt difficult decisions to future contracts, but arbitrators often prove sympathetic to union positions, as recently happened when Air Canada flight attendants won a pension that blends elements of the defined benefits and defined contributions models.

Finally, unions object to proposed comp time arrangements in which hours do not count toward pension benefits.

To do this, pension experts like Ambachtsheer and Greg Hurst, a principal with retirement benefits administrator Morneau Sobeco, recommend creating a new kind of multi-employer pension plan into which every working Canadian would be automatically enrolled, though they could opt out or alter the standard contribution rates.

Even investors with generous benefits and pension plans must take on some risk to build a decent nest egg, «so do you really care if markets go up or down 15 % over a six - month period?»

In March, Bombardier Aerospace workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new reciprocity agreement that ensures workers who switch between Bombardier and the future partnership don't lose their pensions and keep most seniority benefits, including salary and vacation time.

Union officials, who have vowed to fight any effort to reduce benefits to retirees and vested workers, claim the city has undermined the pension fund by outsourcing city services to workers who don't pay into the system.

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

That's pretty much what the federal government has been doing since 2006, with tweaks such as abolishing mandatory retirement, a graduated rise in the eligibility age for OAS benefits and new tax - sheltered savings vehicles in tax - free savings accounts and pooled registered pension plans.

«We're providing pensions for people who have never had one and other benefits the independents couldn't do on their own,» says Beebe, who is also executive director of the New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association.

While Torstar has no bank debt, it does have a major financial obligation to its defined benefit pension plan, which is in a solvency deficit position.

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.

A simple warning to all companies that provide employees with some type of pension plan or health, welfare, or fringe benefits: don't mess up federal reporting requirements or you'll face hefty late - filing penalties.

Employers generally do give departing employees information about their pension benefits, but it may be overlooked in the excitement of a new job or the uncertainty of a layoff.

Both of our jobs currently have defined benefit pension plans in place, both of which we are vested in — I don't put a dollar figure on those but figure those will provide 3k to 4k in retirement income when we retire, depending upon when we retire and then when we choose to draw it.

How much risk you can afford to take with your investment portfolio during retirement, or when approaching it, depends on your cash flow from available income streams — such as pensions, Social Security benefits or annuities — and doing a thorough cash - flow analysis is paramount.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

You'll do far better if you supplement Social Security benefits with pensions, savings, investments and an emergency fund.

When the process has run its course, they threaten their work force with bankruptcy that will wipe out its pension benefits if employees do not agree to «downsize» their claims and replace defined - benefit plans with defined - contribution plans (in which all that employees know is how much they pay in each month, not what they will get in the end).

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

Canadian retirees can receive government support through the Old Age Security (OAS) pensions as well as through the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), yet 48 % of those surveyed did not know with a high degree of confidence how much of their current income will be replaced by their CPP or OAS benefits.

Interestingly, while previous research had established that the CPS doesn't fully capture irregular withdrawals from IRAs and DC plans, the authors find that the CPS also seems to miss a substantial share of traditional defined benefit (DB) pension income.

While I don't have a 401K, my employer does provide a generous pension benefit.

What we need to do is to estimate our retirement income, and decide when we should start our Canada Pension Plan benefits.»

The effect often leaves a bankrupt shell of a company, or at least enables corporate raiders to threaten employees with bankruptcy that would wipe out their pension funds or employee stock ownership plans if they do not agree to replace defined benefit pensions with riskier contribution schemes.

Net investment income does not include tax - exempt interest from municipal bonds (or funds); withdrawals from a retirement plan such as a traditional IRA, Roth IRA, or 401 (k); and payouts from traditional defined benefit pension plans or annuities that are part of retirement plans.

Many had contracts that guaranteed health insurance, even if they were laid off; they had pension benefits that did not depend on the stock market.

Look at what companies did to defined benefit pensions... they shifted it to the workers and now the workers compalin that they do not have enough saved to retire unless they work much longer.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has taken a harder line, warning there was a risk Australia could become an economic basket case like Greece or Spain if the May budget didn't curb «runaway spending» on the aged pension, family tax benefits and childcare.

Goettel acknowledged Ochromowicz did resign, but Goettel said he and other park board members believed Ochromowicz would retire and collect full pension benefits upon his departure from the St. Charles district.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander indicated he was likely to support much of the proposals, telling the Today programme: «If we can move to a benefits system that is simpler and makes it easier for people to move from welfare to work, that's the right thing to do.»

Apparently labour introduced an increase of pension age to 65 in 1995 but failed to inform the women of the 50's who would be most directly affected, the government failed its legal duty to inform all women personally of this change, they tried to get away with this by stating they didn't have any current details, except they forget that they have all details from PAYE, us women still received all our NI demands and self - assessments as well as any tax or child benefit details, so they do have out details, they just failed to carry out this legal action.

A pension is not a benefit and for Mr Cameron and others to say there are other benefits to claim, we don't want benefits, we don't deserve to be treated this way, going to the jobcentre cap in hand.

However, by far the most expensive of all the public pension changes proposed this year — a restoration of generous disability retirement benefits for recently hired New York City police and firefighters — did not win approval before the legislative session ended.

«This report confirms that this government has become obsessed with meeting centrally set targets at the expense of delivering the benefits and services which will do most to lift pensioners out of poverty,» said shadow work and pension secretary Philip Hammond.

The 401 (k) plans, unlike traditional pensions, do not guarantee a specific amount of benefit payments.

Research by the National Audit Office (NAO) finds while increasing take - up of pensions credit by ten per cent would lift up to 107,000 people out of poverty, doing the same for housing and council tax benefits would improve the lives of 130,000 people.

However, it doesn't take much thought to realise that with so many people now on either a benefit or a pension, the marginal cost of introducing a weekly payment as of right is much less than the overall figure of the benefit itself.

«What do the Conservatives stand for when they criticise Labour's child poverty record, but admit that benefits and pensions will bear the full brunt of their cuts?»

There are some reforms that should be made, mainly the ability of individuals to collect pensions while working, earning more than one pension at a time, and overtime spiking, but what Cuomo wants to do with his Tier VI is make a defined benefit pension so unattractive that it forces people into even less safe and proven 401K's.

Neither pension forfeiture nor cracking down on Super PACs has anything to do with these matters, good - government advocates say, and while laudable, they shouldn't substitute for proposals that restrict the flow of campaign money or the omnipresent correlation between those who donate and benefit from favorable state actions.

Even though it is a part - time job, legislators qualify for pension benefits equal to full - time jobs because they file a form with the state comptroller's office each year that declares that they do in fact work more than 30 hours a week.

We have taken some of the big decisions about pensions, about benefits about pay which the government hasn't done.»

But rather than suggest that supporters donate money or warm clothing directly to OWS, the WFP — which has done its best to bleed city residents dry with high taxes and runaway public - employee pension benefits — told the e-mail's recipients that «just $ 5 a month supports our fight for a better New York.»

Works and pensions secretary Ian Duncan Smith sought to do a means - tested consolidation of several social support programmes, motivated by the goal of reducing «benefits».

«One of the most important things the legislature can do in an effort to restore some faith in the system is to pass the proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure elected officials like Sheldon Silver, who abused their office for their own personal benefit, would not receive a public pension,» said Little in a statement.

The current increases in pension costs don't result from increased pension benefits.