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PBGC premium rates going up in 2016

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Employers with underfunded pension plans will be paying sharply higher premiums to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. next year.

In 2016, the variable rate premium will rise to $30 per $1,000 of unfunded vested benefits, up from the $24 rate for 2015, the PBGC announced Monday.

Of that $6 increase, $5 was set by a 2013 law, and the remainder was due to a provision in that law that ties increases in the variable rate premium to wage inflation.

In addition, the maximum variable rate premium next year will be capped at $500 per plan participant, up from the $418 per participant cap in 2015.

The base flat-rate premium — paid by all defined benefit plan sponsors — will increase in 2016 to $64 per plan participant, up from $57 in 2015.

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