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The 1980 Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act: An Assessment of Funding Requirement Changes

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 27, 1985
Report No. HRD-85-1
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Summary:

GAO reported on the effect of the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 on employers, participants, and others, and it assessed the effect of the act's changes in multiemployer plan funding requirements.

GAO found that 14 of 149 plans it examined were financially distressed and could pose a risk to the government's insurance program amounting to billions of dollars. The act's provisions for improving the financial condition of such distressed plans, however, may not be adequate. GAO noted that, although the act's reorganization provisions are intended to reduce the risk that financially distressed plans pose to the entire insurance program, the provisions are not likely to identify the distressed plans or to require most of them to take action to improve their financial condition.

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