Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about core benefit plans from a state and from a national level. Core benefit plan is used interchangeably in this session with standard benefit plan, basic benefit plan, and minimum benefit plan. Topics included: 1. A summary of the legislative process. 2. A summary of options available within the national health-care debate, with a primary focus on the Clinton proposal. 3. The role of core benefit-plans in health-care reform.

Description: The panelists discuss recent developments, especially governmental laws and rules affecting the pension plans in the U.S. that are not being covered at other sessions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: The panel discusses the major effects of the Small Business Job Protection Act SBJPA on defined-contribution plans emphasizing: -changes to average deferred percentage test, -corrective refunds, and -401 k and 401 m safe harbors. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session examines both the rules and practitioners' experience in implementing rules enacted with GATT: reportable events, PBGC notification of financial status, participant notification for underfunded plans.