That defined-benefit healthcare plan that is blowing up?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Lewis: Healthcare Reform That Conservatives Could Love] Reference

Labor unions often demand generous defined-benefit retirement plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 75, Social Security Isn't Aging Well] Reference

That excludes the value of primary homes and defined-benefit pension plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [43 Percent Of Americans Have Less Than $10K For Retirement: Survey] Reference

Only about 20 percent of private-sector workers have defined-benefit plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trickle-Down Misery in L.A.] Reference

Only 21 percent of workers in the private sector have defined-benefit pensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Tasini: CEOs Boosting Their Pensions While Workers Pensions go Poof] Reference

The beneficiaries of the latest changes are retirees with defined-benefit plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBM, Flush With Cash,] Reference

Today, 401 (k) s have largely replaced traditional defined-benefit pension plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Workplace Retirement Plans] Reference

The vast majority of these employees are covered by defined-benefit pension plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Ticking Pension Time Bomb] Reference

Guaranteed defined-benefit pensions have gone the way of cellphones without cameras.    From Wordnik.com.  [John F. Wasik: The American Dream is Leaving the Station] Reference

Does the suspension apply to tax-deferred annuities or defined-benefit pension plans?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Details on the New IRA Rule] Reference

Pension Peril Scenario: You retire and begin to take a distribution from your defined-benefit plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitfalls of Working Past Retirement Age] Reference

Government-run and union-run defined-benefit plans aren't safer than the market; they lose money too.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 75, Social Security Isn't Aging Well] Reference

It insures many traditional, defined-benefit plans but not defined-contribution plans like 401 (k) s. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [What if you lose your job #5: Retirement plans] Reference

And public-sector defined-benefit plans paid retirees about twice as much as those in the private sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tackle Government Labor Costs] Reference

The federal government should freeze government pay, end defined-benefit pensions and impose a hiring freeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Shapiro: Ten Steps the U.S. Government Should Take to Stimulate the Economy, Encourage Businesses to Create Jobs - And Cut the Federal Deficit] Reference

We stopped giving workers defined-benefit pensions and let them "pick their own investments" in 401 (k) plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don McNay: Getting Rich and the Marshmallow] Reference

Critics of the union argue that the private sector has all but abandoned traditional defined-benefit pensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paras Bhayani: Whose Fault is the CPS Budget Crisis?] Reference

Riordan and Rubalcava suggest replacing defined-benefit pensions with 401 (k) accounts for new public employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trickle-Down Misery in L.A.] Reference

"There are still private-sector companies out there that are committed to keeping defined-benefit plans," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pension-Plan Freezes] Reference

Or you freeze the defined-benefit pension program and shift over to a defined-contribution program that costs less.    From Wordnik.com.  [R. Eden Martin: Springfield Rally Missed the Point] Reference

"For people who are not investment professionals," a retirement pro told Smith, "a defined-benefit plan works far better.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Mann: The Parts of The 401(k) Disaster Story 60 Minutes DIDN'T Report] Reference

Most state and local government defined-benefit retirement plans, which cover millions of Americans, do invest in the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 75, Social Security Isn't Aging Well] Reference

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that only 21 percent of workers in the private sector have defined-benefit pensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Tasini: Corporations Using WORKERS Money For CEO PENSIONS] Reference

Forced moves from defined-benefit to defined-contribution pension plans, for example, shift risk from employers to employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Burt: A Game of Risk] Reference

Liberals believe that defined-benefit plans, which pay a schedule of benefits, are much safer than defined-contribution plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 75, Social Security Isn't Aging Well] Reference

But such countervailing forces may be greatly attenuated for federal government defined-benefit plans such as Social Security.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Fed Chairman Greenspan Testifies Before House Budget Committee - March 2, 2001] Reference

No wonder Iberia, with no defined-benefit scheme and little debt, wants more than the 35% of the combined company BA is offering.    From Wordnik.com.  [BA Deficit Is a Headache for Iberia, Too] Reference

But the company won legislative relief to preserve its defined-benefit pension plans by freezing them instead of terminating them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northwest Pilots File Complaint] Reference

Seventy-seven percent of union workers participate in defined-benefit pension plans, compared with 20 percent of nonunion workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: America Is Strong When Our Unions Are Strong] Reference

What the recent downturn has really demonstrated is just how shaky defined-benefit plans can be, especially those run by government.    From Wordnik.com.  [At 75, Social Security Isn't Aging Well] Reference

Yet there are still more than 350 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 with defined-benefit pension plans that show up on their books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble Is Brewing for Pension Plans] Reference

In the private sector, defined-benefit pensions have declined over the years in favor of defined-contribution plans such as the 401 (k).    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Tackle Government Labor Costs] Reference

In the longer term, near-zero interest rates will seriously impair important financial institutions such as defined-benefit pension plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Should the Federal Reserve Do Next?] Reference

These requirements also apply to 401 (k) s and some other employer-sponsored plans, but not to defined-benefit pension plans or Roth IRAs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress Revises Retirement-Fund Rules] Reference

Pilots who already had accrued years of benefits under the now-frozen defined-benefit plan still will receive those accruals when they retire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northwest Pilots File Complaint] Reference

The U.K. airline, planning an all-share merger with Spanish rival Iberia, is under pressure to renegotiate because of the hole in its defined-benefit pension fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [BA Deficit Is a Headache for Iberia, Too] Reference

In its third-quarter results, BCE warned that if markets continued falling, its defined-benefit pension plans would fall into deficit and require topping up in 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bell Tolls for the World's Biggest Leveraged Buyout] Reference