[Federal Register: December 13, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 241)]
[Notices]
[Page 65607-65608]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION
Interest Assumption for Determining Variable-Rate Premium;
Interest Assumptions for Multiemployer Plan Valuations Following Mass
Withdrawal
AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
ACTION: Notice of interest rates and assumptions.
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SUMMARY: This notice informs the public of the interest rates and
assumptions to be used under certain Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation regulations. These rates and assumptions are published
elsewhere (or are derivable from rates published elsewhere), but are
collected and published in this notice for the convenience of the
public. Interest rates are also published on the PBGC's home page
(http://www.pbgc.gov).
DATES: The interest rate for determining the variable-rate premium
under part 4006 applies to premium payment years beginning in December
1996. The interest assumptions for performing multiemployer plan
valuations following mass withdrawal under part 4281 apply to valuation
dates occurring in January 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harold J. Ashner, Assistant General
Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation, 1200 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005, 202-326-4024
(202-326-4179 for TTY and TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Variable-Rate Premiums
Section 4006(a)(3)(E)(iii)(II) of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 and Sec. 4006.4(b)(1) of the PBGC's regulation on
Premium Rates (29 CFR part 4006) prescribe use of an assumed interest
rate in determining a single-employer plan's variable-rate premium. The
rate is a specified percentage (currently 80 percent) of the annual
yield on 30-year Treasury securities for the month preceding the
beginning of the plan year for which premiums are being paid (the
``premium payment year''). The yield figure is reported in Federal
Reserve Statistical Releases G.13 and H.15.
The assumed interest rate to be used in determining variable-rate
premiums for premium payment years beginning in December 1996 (i.e., 80
percent of the yield figure for November 1996) is 5.18 percent. The
following table lists the assumed interest rates to be used in
determining variable-rate premiums for premium payment years beginning
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between January 1996 and December 1996.
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The
required
For premium payment years beginning in interest
rate is
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January 1996................................................. 4.85
February 1996................................................ 4.84
March 1996................................................... 4.99
April 1996................................................... 5.28
May 1996..................................................... 5.43
June 1996.................................................... 5.54
July 1996.................................................... 5.65
August 1996.................................................. 5.62
September 1996............................................... 5.47
October 1996................................................. 5.62
November 1996................................................ 5.45
December 1996................................................ 5.18
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Multiemployer Plan Valuations Following Mass Withdrawal
The PBGC's regulation on Duties of Plan Sponsor Following Mass
Withdrawal (29 CFR part 4281) prescribes the use of interest
assumptions under the PBGC's regulation on Allocation of Assets in
Single-employer Plans (29 CFR part 4044). The interest assumptions
applicable to valuation dates in January 1997 under part 4044 are
contained in an amendment to part 4044 published elsewhere in today's
Federal Register. Tables showing the assumptions applicable to prior
periods are codified in appendix B to 29 CFR part 4044.
Issued in Washington, D.C., on this 10th day of December 1996.
Martin Slate,
Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
[FR Doc. 96-31716 Filed 12-12-96; 8:45 am]
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