USA: Pension changes from COVID relief: single employer plans

The fifth round of COVID relief, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021.  There are several changes in the details of the law that affect pension plan sponsors. This article focuses on changes to Single Employer plans. If you are a sponsor of or participate in a multi-employer plan, please check out our update on those changes here: Pension Changes from COVID Relief: Multi-Employer Plans.

While changes to the multi-employer system were designed to provide funding to significantly underfunded plans, the single-employer changes were designed to reduce the funding requirements for plans for the rest of the decade.

Read the full article here: https://findley.com/2021/03/pension-changes-from-covid-relief-single-employer-plans/