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Dated this 10th day of February, 2015 at 

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DATE: Week of February 16, 2015. 

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PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 

2014; Partitions of Eligible 

Multiemployer Plans and Facilitated 

Mergers 

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Request for Information. 

SUMMARY: This document is a request for 

information (RFI) to inform future PBGC 

guidance under sections 4231 and 4233 

of ERISA. PBGC is seeking comments 

from all interested stakeholders, 

including multiemployer plan 

participants and beneficiaries, 

organizations serving or representing 

such individuals, multiemployer plan 

sponsors and professional advisors, 

contributing employers, unions, and 

other interested parties. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the Web 

site instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: reg.comments@pbgc.gov. 

• Fax: 202–326–4224. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: Regulatory 

Affairs Group, Office of the General 

Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation, 1200 K Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20005–4026. 

All materials submitted will be shared 

with the Department of the Treasury 

and the Department of Labor. Comments 

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1Upon plan insolvency, PBGC provided the 

terminated plan with financial assistance to cover 

the cost of PBGC-guaranteed benefits and 

reasonable and necessary administrative expenses. 

information provided, will be posted to 

www.pbgc.gov. Copies of comments may 

also be obtained by writing to 

Disclosure Division, Office of the 

General Counsel, Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20005–4026 or 

calling 202–326–4040 during normal 

business hours. (TTY and TDD users 

may call the Federal relay service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be 

connected to 202–326–4040.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph J. Shelton (shelton.joseph@

pbgc.gov), Office of the General Counsel, 

at 202–326–4000, ext. 6559, or 

Constance Markakis 

(markakis.constance@pbgc.gov), Office 

of Negotiations and Restructuring, at 

202–326–4000, ext. 6779; (TTY/TDD 

users may call the Federal relay service 

toll-free at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to 

be connected to 202–326–4024.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) is a Federal 

corporation created under the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA) to guarantee the payment of 

pension benefits earned by more than 41 

million American workers and retirees 

in nearly 24,000 private-sector defined 

benefit pension plans. PBGC 

administers two insurance programs— 

one for single-employer defined benefit 

pension plans and a second for 

multiemployer defined benefit pension 

plans. 

The multiemployer program protects 

benefits of approximately 10 million 

workers and retirees in approximately 

1,400 plans. A multiemployer plan is a 

collectively bargained pension 

arrangement involving two or more 

unrelated employers, usually in a 

common industry, such as construction 

or trucking, where workers may move 

from employer to employer on a regular 

basis. 

Under PBGC’s multiemployer 

program, when a plan becomes 

insolvent, PBGC provides financial 

assistance directly to the insolvent plan 

sufficient to pay guaranteed benefits to 

participants and beneficiaries, and the 

reasonable and necessary administrative 

expenses of the insolvent plan. 

The focus of this RFI is on two new 

statutory provisions regarding 

multiemployer partitions and mergers 

that apply only to multiemployer 

pension plans. The provisions were 

enacted on December 16, 2014, as part 

of the Multiemployer Pension Reform 

Act of 2014, Division O of the 

Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 

113–235 (MPRA). The first is section 

122 of MPRA, which replaced the 

multiemployer partition rules under 

section 4233 of ERISA with new rules. 

The second is section 121 of MPRA, 

which added a new provision to the 

multiemployer merger rules under 

section 4231 of ERISA. Below is a 

summary of those rules. 

Partitions of Eligible Multiemployer 

Plans Under MPRA 

Before MPRA, PBGC could partition a 

multiemployer plan likely to become 

insolvent on its own accord or upon 

application by a plan sponsor. In either 

case, however, partition was only 

available in certain limited 

circumstances involving employer 

bankruptcies, and the liabilities 

transferred were those directly 

attributable to service with bankrupt 

employers. Under the partition order, 

those liabilities and an equitable share 

of assets were transferred to a new plan 

created by the partition (which was both 

a terminated plan and a successor plan 

under Title IV of ERISA), at which point 

the original plan was no longer 

responsible for the transferred 

liabilities.1 Section 122 of MPRA 

replaced this framework with new rules 

under section 4233 of ERISA. 

Section 4233(a)(1), as amended by 

MPRA, provides that upon the 

application by the plan sponsor of an 

‘‘eligible multiemployer plan,’’ PBGC 

may order a partition. The statute 

requires PBGC to make a determination 

on an application for partition not later 

than 270 days after the date the 

application was filed (or, if later, the 

date the application was completed) in 

accordance with regulations to be 

promulgated by PBGC. Under section 

4233(a)(2), the plan sponsor must 

provide notice of the application for 

partition to participants and 

beneficiaries (in the form and manner 

prescribed by regulation) not later than 

30 days after submitting an application. 

Because regulations are required to 

implement section 4233 of ERISA, 

including the procedures for the plan 

sponsor to submit an application for 

partition, PBGC has determined that a 

plan sponsor may submit an application 

for partition only on or after a date to 

be specified in regulations. 

Section 4233(b) prescribes five 

requirements that must be satisfied for 

PBGC to determine that a plan is an 

‘‘eligible multiemployer plan’’ for 

purposes of section 4233 of ERISA: 

1. Section 4233(b)(1) provides that the 

plan must be in critical and declining 

status as defined in section 305 of 

ERISA (section 432 of the Internal 

Revenue Code (Code)). 

2. Under section 4233(b)(2), PBGC 

must determine, after consultation with 

the Participant and Plan Sponsor 

Advocate selected under section 4004, 

that the plan sponsor has taken (or is 

taking concurrently with an application 

for partition) all reasonable measures to 

avoid insolvency, including the 

maximum benefit suspensions under 

section 305(e)(9) of ERISA (section 

432(e)(9) of the Code), if applicable. 

3. Under section 4233(b)(3), PBGC 

must reasonably expect that: (A) 

Partition will reduce PBGC’s expected 

long-term loss with respect to the plan; 

and (B) partition is necessary for the 

plan to remain solvent. 

4. Under section 4233(b)(4), PBGC 

must certify to Congress that its ability 

to meet existing financial assistance 

obligations to other plans (including any 

liabilities associated with 

multiemployer plans that are insolvent 

or that are projected to become 

insolvent within 10 years) will not be 

impaired by the partition. 

5. Section 4233(b)(5) requires that the 

cost of the partition to the PBGC arising 

from the partition be paid exclusively 

from PBGC’s multiemployer fund. 

Upon approval by PBGC, section 

4233(c) requires that the order of 

partition provide for a transfer of the 

minimum amount of liabilities 

necessary for the transferring plan (i.e., 

the original plan) to remain solvent. 

Under sections 4233(d)(1) and (2), the 

benefits in the plan created by the 

partition (the successor plan) are subject 

to the multiemployer benefit guarantee 

limits under section 4022A, and the 

plan sponsor and administrator of the 

original plan will also be the plan 

sponsor and administrator of the 

successor plan. 

Section 4233(d)(3) prescribes special 

withdrawal liability rules that apply for 

10 years following the date of the 

partition order. In the event an 

employer withdraws from the plan that 

was partitioned (the original plan) 

within 10 years of the partition, 

withdrawal liability is computed with 

respect to the original plan and the plan 

that was created by the partition order 

(the successor plan). If the withdrawal 

occurs more than 10 years after the date 

of the partition order, withdrawal 

liability is computed only with respect 

to the original plan (and not with 

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2 In addition, under section 4233(e)(2), in the 

event the original plan provides a benefit 

improvement after the effective date of the 

partition, the plan must pay to PBGC for each year 

during the 10-year period following the partition, 

an annual amount equal to the value of the increase 

in benefit payments for such year attributable to the 

benefit improvement (or, if less, the total benefit 

payments from the plan created by the partition for 

such year). 

Section 4233(e)(1) prescribes a 

continuing payment obligation that 

applies to the plan that was partitioned 

(the original plan), which requires it to 

pay a monthly benefit to each 

participant and beneficiary whose 

guaranteed benefit was transferred to 

the successor plan in the amount by 

which the benefit that would be paid 

under the original plan’s terms (after 

taking into account any benefit 

suspensions under section 432(e)(9) of 

the Code and any plan amendments 

following the partition effective date) 

exceeds the PBGC-guaranteed benefit 

amount for that person.2

Section 4233(e)(3) sets forth a special 

premium rule that applies to the plan 

that was partitioned (the original plan), 

which requires it to pay the premiums 

for the participants whose benefits were 

transferred to the successor plan for 

each year during the 10-year period 

following the partition effective date. 

Finally, section 4233(f) provides notice 

requirements that apply to PBGC (not 

plan sponsors). 

Facilitated Mergers and Financial 

Assistance Under MPRA 

Section 121 of MPRA amends, but 

does not replace, the existing 

multiemployer merger rules under 

section 4231. Specifically, it adds 

section 4231(e), which gives PBGC new 

statutory authority to facilitate the 

merger of two or more multiemployer 

plans if certain requirements are met. In 

contrast to the partition rule discussed 

above, a regulation is not required to 

implement section 4231(e). 

Nevertheless, PBGC is considering 

issuing guidance under that section so 

that applicants have advance notice of 

the expected showing they must make 

to demonstrate satisfaction of the new 

statutory criteria. 

Section 4231(e)(1) provides that when 

requested to do so by the plan sponsors, 

PBGC may take such actions as it deems 

appropriate to promote and facilitate the 

merger of two or more multiemployer 

plans if it determines, after consultation 

with the Participant and Plan Sponsor 

Advocate, that the following conditions 

are met: 

• The transaction is in the interests of 

the participants and beneficiaries of at 

least one of the plans; and 

• The transaction is not reasonably 

expected to be adverse to the overall 

interests of the participants and 

beneficiaries of any of the plans. 

For purposes of section 4231(e), 

‘‘facilitation’’ may include training, 

technical assistance, mediation, 

communication with stakeholders, and 

support with related requests to other 

government agencies. 

Section 4231(e)(2) prescribes four 

requirements that must be satisfied for 

PBGC to provide financial assistance. 

Specifically, the statute provides that to 

facilitate a merger that PBGC determines 

is necessary to enable one or more of the 

plans involved to avoid or postpone 

insolvency, PBGC may provide financial 

assistance only if the following 

conditions are met: 

• One or more of the multiemployer 

plans participating in the merger is in 

critical and declining status as defined 

in section 305 of ERISA (section 432 of 

the Code); 

• PBGC reasonably expects that: (i) 

Such financial assistance will reduce 

the corporation’s expected long-term 

loss with respect to the plans involved; 

and (ii) such financial assistance is 

necessary for the merged plan to become 

or remain solvent; 

• PBGC certifies that its ability to 

meet existing financial assistance 

obligations to other plans will not be 

impaired by such financial assistance; 

and 

• PBGC financial assistance is paid 

exclusively from its multiemployer 

fund. 

Request for Information 

PBGC is requesting information from 

stakeholders on a range of issues 

regarding the application process for 

partitions and facilitated mergers to 

better inform its future guidance under 

sections 121 and 122 of MPRA. 

PBGC welcomes comments from all 

interested stakeholders, including 

participants and beneficiaries, 

organizations serving or representing 

such individuals, plan sponsors and 

professional advisors to multiemployer 

plans (including those in the actuarial 

and legal communities), contributing 

employers, unions, and other interested 

parties. In responding, please provide as 

much specificity and detail as possible, 

as well as any supporting 

documentation, including research and 

analyses, to ensure that we have the 

most helpful information for future 

guidance. Recognizing the linkage 

between MPRA’s partition rules and the 

benefit suspension rules under section 

432(e)(9) of the Code, and the possibility 

that a plan sponsor may apply to PBGC 

for a partition (or facilitated merger) 

concurrently with an application for 

benefit suspension to the Department of 

the Treasury, comments relating to the 

interaction between these provisions are 

especially welcome. PBGC is not, 

however, seeking comments on section 

432(e)(9) of the Code or any other 

provision of MPRA. 

The Department of the Treasury is 

issuing its own RFI seeking comments 

on certain matters that may be 

addressed in future guidance 

implementing section 432(e)(9) of the 

Code. PBGC and the Department of the 

Treasury intend to coordinate on the 

development of their processes as a 

result of these RFIs. 

Issues Affecting Both Partitions and 

Facilitated Mergers 

1. Application Process: With respect 

to MPRA’s changes to the rules 

governing mergers and partitions under 

sections 4231 and 4233 of ERISA, 

respectively, on which aspects of the 

application process would guidance be 

needed or helpful? 

2. PBGC Determinations: With respect 

to a PBGC determination under section 

4233(b)(3) that a partition is necessary 

for a plan to remain solvent, or in the 

case of a facilitated merger involving 

financial assistance under section 

4231(e)(2)(B) that financial assistance is 

necessary for a merged plan to become 

or remain solvent: 

• What types of actuarial and plan 

administrative information and analysis 

are available to demonstrate that a 

partition or facilitated merger of the 

plan is necessary to remain solvent? 

• What issues arise in demonstrating 

solvency over an extended duration? 

3. Small Plans: What special concerns 

do small multiemployer plans and their 

sponsors have regarding partition and 

facilitated mergers? 

4. Participants and Beneficiaries: 

What special concerns do participants 

and beneficiaries in multiemployer 

plans have regarding the process for 

considering applications for partition 

and facilitated mergers? 

Issues Affecting Partitions Only 

5. Notice: With respect to the 

requirement under section 4233(a)(2) to 

provide notice to participants and 

beneficiaries not later than 30 days after 

submitting the application for partition: 

• How can PBGC reduce the burden 

of providing the notice under current 

law, while still providing important 

information to participants and 

beneficiaries? Should PBGC consider 

issuing a model notice in future 

guidance? 


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• What type(s) of information would 

participants and beneficiaries find most 

helpful? 

• Given that the amount of liabilities 

required to be transferred in a partition 

may not be known at the time notice is 

issued, how should the notice reflect the 

requirements of section 4233(e)(1), 

which ensure that affected participants 

and beneficiaries will receive no less 

than they would have received prior to 

the partition (taking into account benefit 

suspensions under section 305(e)(9) and 

any plan amendments following the 

partition effective date)? 

6. PBGC Determination: For purposes 

of the requirement under section 

4233(b) that PBGC determine, in 

consultation with the Participant and 

Plan Sponsor Advocate, that the plan 

sponsor has taken (or is taking 

concurrently with an application for 

partition), all reasonable measures to 

avoid insolvency, including the 

maximum benefit suspensions under 

section 432(e)(9) of the Code: 

• What actuarial, economic, industry, 

or other information could a plan 

sponsor provide to make such a 

showing? What information or analysis 

might be difficult to provide? 

• With respect to the consultation 

process under section 4233(b)(2), how 

can the Participant and Plan Sponsor 

Advocate best assist PBGC in making its 

determination under this section? 

7. Concurrent Applications: What 

practical issues do plan sponsors and 

their professional advisors anticipate 

may arise in connection with a decision 

to submit combined applications for 

partition to PBGC under section 4233 of 

ERISA, and suspension of benefits to the 

Department of Treasury under section 

432 of the Code? In responding to this 

question, consider the following: 

• Timing: With respect to an 

application for partition, PBGC is 

required to make a determination not 

later than 270 days after the application 

date (or, if later, the date such 

application was completed). With 

respect to an application for suspension 

of benefits, the Treasury Secretary (in 

consultation with PBGC and the 

Secretary of Labor) is required to 

approve or deny an application within 

225 days after submission. 

• Effective Date: With respect to a 

concurrent application for partition and 

suspensions of benefits, the suspension 

of benefits may not take effect prior to 

the effective date of such partition. 

• Solvency: Under section 4233(c), 

the amount to be transferred in a 

partition is the minimum amount of the 

plan’s liabilities necessary for the plan 

to remain solvent. Section 

432(e)(9)(D)(iv) of the Code provides 

that any suspensions of benefits, in the 

aggregate (and, if applicable, considered 

in combination with a partition of the 

plan under section 4233 of ERISA), shall 

be reasonably estimated to achieve, but 

not materially exceed, the level that is 

necessary to avoid insolvency. 

8. Transferred Liabilities: Prior to 

MPRA, PBGC’s partition order would 

provide for a transfer of no more than 

the non-forfeitable benefits directly 

attributable to service with the bankrupt 

employer and an equitable share of 

assets. In contrast, under section 

4233(c), the partition order will provide 

for a transfer of the minimum amount of 

the plan’s liabilities necessary for the 

plan to remain solvent. In addition, 

section 4233(e)(1) prescribes a 

continuing payment obligation that 

applies to the plan that was partitioned 

(the original plan). 

• What types of actuarial and 

administrative information and data do 

multiemployer plans generally maintain 

that would allow PBGC to determine the 

minimum amount of the plan’s 

liabilities necessary for the plan to 

remain solvent? 

• What administrative or operational 

issues (e.g., recordkeeping, benefit 

processing, allocation of expenses) arise 

in connection with this change? 

• Are there additional issues that 

arise with respect to the transfer of the 

plan’s liabilities for particular groups of 

individuals? 

9. Post-Partition: With respect to 

issues that might arise post-partition: 

• What kinds of administrative or 

operational issues (e.g., recordkeeping, 

benefit processing, allocation of 

expenses, the original plan’s ongoing 

payment obligations under section 

4231(e)(1)) might arise post-partition for 

plan sponsors? 

• What issues or challenges do plan 

sponsors and their professional advisors 

anticipate in connection with the 

special withdrawal liability rule under 

section 4233(d)(3), which applies for a 

10-year period following the partition 

effective date? 

• What issues or challenges do plan 

sponsors and their professional advisors 

anticipate in connection with the 

special benefit improvement and 

premium rules under sections 4233(e)(2) 

and (3) of ERISA, which apply for a 10- 

year period following the partition 

effective date? 

• Is there a need for additional postpartition oversight by PBGC to ensure 

compliance with MPRA’s post-partition 

requirements, and if so, in what areas? 

Issues Affecting Facilitated Mergers 

Only 

10. Technical Assistance: MPRA 

provides a non-exclusive list of the 

types of non-financial assistance that 

PBGC may provide in the context of a 

facilitated merger (e.g., training, 

technical assistance, mediation, 

communication with stakeholders, and 

support with related requests to other 

government agencies). For purposes of a 

facilitated merger, which of these types 

of assistance would plan sponsors and 

professional advisors find most helpful? 

Are there other examples of nonfinancial technical advice that would 

help facilitate multiemployer mergers? 

11. PBGC Determination: For 

purposes of the facilitated merger 

requirement under section 4231(e)(1) 

that PBGC determine, in consultation 

with the Participant and Plan Sponsor 

Advocate, that the transaction is in the 

interests of the participants and 

beneficiaries of at least one of the plans 

and is not reasonably expected to be 

adverse to the overall interests of the 

participants and beneficiaries of the 

plans: 

• What actuarial, economic, industry, 

or other information could the plan 

sponsors of the plans involved in the 

proposed merger provide to make such 

a showing? 

• With respect to the consultation 

process under section 4231(e)(1), how 

can the Participant and Plan Sponsor 

Advocate best assist PBGC in making its 

determination under this section? 

12. Concurrent Applications: What 

procedural issues do plan sponsors and 

their professional advisors anticipate in 

connection with a decision to request 

assistance from PBGC for a facilitated 

merger under section 4231(e) of ERISA, 

concurrently with an application for 

suspension of benefits from the 

Department of Treasury under section 

432(e)(9) of the Code? 

Although PBGC is specifically 

requesting comments on the issues and 

questions discussed above, PBGC also 

invites comment on any other issue 

relating to the application process for 

partitions and facilitated mergers under 

sections 121 and 122 of MPRA. 

Issued in Washington, DC, this 13th day of 

February 2015. 

Alice C. Maroni, 

Acting Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

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