Congress gives final OK to bill allowing multiemployer pension plan benefit cuts

Trustees of financially distressed multiemployer pension plans would be allowed to cut participants' benefits to prevent the plans from becoming insolvent under legislation given final congressional approval Saturday. The multiemployer provisions, part of a sprawling $1.1 trillion spending bill, H.R. 83, cleared the Senate Saturday on a 56-40 vote.



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