Arbitration

Four employers withdrew from the IAM National Pension Fund during 2018, and the fund assessed their liability as of December 31, 2017, using a discount rate of 6.5% that it had adopted with its actuarial firm in January 2018, rather than the 7.5% rate it had used before.

Arbitrators sided with the employers and required the Fund to use the assumptions in effect on the measurement date, but the District Courts disagreed, and the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit affirmed, creating a conflict with the Second Circuit.

The question presented was, whether the instruction in Section 1391 of Title 29 of the United States Code to compute withdrawal liability as of the end of the plan year requires the plan to base the computation on the actuarial assumptions most recently adopted before the end of the year, or allows the plan to use different actuarial assumptions that were adopted after, but based on information available as of the end of the year.

The Court held, the provisions of ERISA governing the calculation of withdrawal liability do not require the actuarial assumptions underlying that calculation to be selected on or before the measurement date.

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