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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation reports that shifting its enforcement policy away from companies unlikely to default on their pensions benefited about 50 businesses by almost $1 billion since the start of a pilot program announced in November.
“The new approach screens out financially sound companies and small plans with less than 100 people, which excludes 92 percent of businesses that sponsor plans from the agency’s enforcement efforts,” according to the agency.
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