Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about communication of employee benefit programs to employees, the role communication plays in the financial success of benefit programs today and new approaches being used to communicate benefits.

Description: This presentation discusses Pension benefits as an asset from the plan participant's point of view: degree of risk to the participant in meeting retirement income objectives, impact of legislative changes, Financial Accounting Standards, Board FASB reporting requirements, plan termination liabilities and other factors on the relative roles of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, trends in plan design, investment choices in defined contribution plans, implications with Social Security, Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA, 401k plans. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3.

Description: This 1990 panel discussion is about the integration of qualified retirement plans with Social Security. The topics discussed include 1. IRC Section 414s rules on the definition of compensation, 2. IRC Section 401a17 rules on maximum covered compensation, and 3. The relationship between IRC 401l permitted disparity rules with the general rules under the 401a4 regulations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.