#pension

Verizon has been selling our pension funds, we loose guaranteed protections. The union needs to negotiate to allow us to roll our pension balance into our 401ks.

Quitting this dump this year. Can I take my 401k and pension and roll them into my next employers 401k plan?

If I rage quit same day how do I do this?

May seem like a d-mb question but I’m concerned they’ll pull some schiesty BS

Im 2 years away from the magic number 75=years of service + age min 50. Is it worth it to stay at VZ if you have a good opportunity offer with another company?

Will these benefits even be around in the future? Ill be 51 in two years theres no way i can stay here much longer. I heard the pension maxes out at 30 years service.

Any further updates on CEO or CFO looking at the pension and removing it or changing the program?

I realize this post only applies to employees who were hired before 2008, because they've changed the way our pension is being calculated going forward. I just got around to looking at my new pension estimate for retirement and it decreased 57%. My pension was the one last thing I've been holding on to; really the only thing that was truly keeping me here. Now seeing my new pension number, knowing that giving 20+ more years would only add a measley amount - I have no reason now. Cheers to a new year and hopefully a new job!

As I said months ago they already have a contract extension in place .Both sides just needed to make it look like there was so much between them.As though so much hard work had to be done .Now they sell us the bag that’s filled with you know what.They will say man we made progress it was a tough fight and this is what we got .So I think retirees best not get their hopes up the cost of the health is not reverting.The only hope you have is a cap of some sort.The raises will be just enough to cover the medical increase for active workers.The company as you know wants to wack the disability down so there goes that when the majority of us now at at a point we may need it.So here’s to 2026 best of luck brothers.Lets just hope they don’t sell out the lump for the pension carriers maybe they throw us a bone with another paid holiday like June 19

My Verizon net credit service is not recognized by Verizon benefits/pension, because I worked in three different parts of the company. I am literally days short of qualifying for my full unreduced pension benefit, even with them not recognizing all my years of service. This is just mind blowing to me having spent the majority of my adult life working for this company. I never would have imagined!

What was your experience?

I fedexed my papers so they’d be received before the tenth only to be told to check back the end end of January.

I’ve heard that if you leave once your pension vests (after 5 years), the company likes to pay you your lump sum to get the liability off the books.

Is that true?

And if so, anyone know what those payout amounts look like after 5, 7, 10, 15, etc years?

How is everyone holding up after being deceived and cheated out of their rightful pensions?

I firmly believe that the elite members of the Mars family will eventually get what they truly deserve in life and beyond.

Per my contract I’m fully invested being with Cisco 5 years, so I’m not worried if I get laid off since I will get pension the rest of my life. The question I have, when I go back home will they deposit my monthly payment in my India bank?

If Robin and his fellow board of ejector directors ruin BNY and run it into the ground, are pensions guaranteed and safe to those who were lucky enough to earn them? What about any medical benefits, 401K or money we paid into? Obviously BNY stock could bottom out but I would think pensions and benefits earned should be safe under the law?

Beginning to think it’s not a question if Robin could do this, but, when?

For those that are aware, from January DXC's "employer's" pension contributions will no longer be paid forusing our compensation packages. Instead DXC will pay them directly. Previously these contributions have been paid for out of our Flex funds which I have always thought as wrong. Its "Employers contributions" after all. "Employee's" contributions will remain to be charged to our Flex fund.

I'm glad that this appears to be rectified but its got me thinking that we've been unfairly charged by DXC for these contributions and this could add up to quite a significant amount.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It's a little bizaare for DXC to suddenly change their contributions. I would like to know what has driven this change.

Has anyone received there Pension?

I’m just sitting here reminiscing about the past 37 years working for Nynex/NYTel, Bell Atlantic/Verizon. The union, while certainly far from perfect, got me enough to get married, buy a house and raise 4 kids into adults while allowing my wife to stay home and raise them. Did they blow it with the tiered compensation/benefits for new hires? Yup. Did they bone over retirees with crushing health insurance costs starting in January? Yup. Could they have done better with pensions and lump sums? Yup. Did they spend way too much time and effort defending slug members who should have been fired? Yup. But overall It’s been a good ride with a good group of coworkers. Not sure if I’m gonna bail before August or hang for a bit longer, but either way it’s gonna be on my terms. As for the recently layed off folks, I feel for y’all - this company is as ruthless as it’s ever been and this guy Dan ain’t gonna be a bag of laughs for any of us. Cheers and good luck. AGB

Nothing new, but I am tired of dealing with this failing company, the layoffs of good employees, etc... so I'm looking for a new job at a growing company. I just want to make sure that I receive my LTI, deferred comp, pension credit, and 401k credit. Will working through 12/31 suffice or is it 2/28/26? Thanks!

After reviewing the information online and calling two different reps in the hr/retirement area, I cannot get an answer to my question. Does anyone know if the old pension plan - like from 2002 - has a lump sum withdrawal option? It seems like that might be a better bet if you are over 60.

I was on the old plan before the cash plan. I show mine is about 25-30% lower than when I left the company. Heard they had some changes? Whats going on??

E-mail came today to I assume everyone on the old pension. It seems like they are trying to get longtime employees (who would have large severance packages) to quit. It might work.

Just one more f you. I am thankful to have a lump sum pension of note (30+ yr employee) but I just lost about 35K.

Just curious.... What's your current retirement.

I'm 50 and my 401k + Pension combined is $2M.... 18 years with CVX

I would like to obtain more benchmarks. Feel free to share. TY

Looks like the shareholders are OK with Imperial Oil. I guess from a shareholder perspective, the company is doing OK.

Employees don’t want it to be like this too. After all, our pensions are tied to the company, and some of us will still get their salary from this company.

Don’t want bad for anyone, so happy to see that the stock price is going up.

SGL 15-18 have had their total comp reduced, although the company has done a good job at dressing it up as no big deal with their slide show. Basically, your vcip % goes down and your RSU % goes up and to help offset inbetween until those elevated RSUs vest there is a lump sum payment. However when you do the math the reduction in VCIP for the two lost years outweighs the laughably small lump sum payment, and the bigger the VCIP amount the bigger the loss. Further to that you lose some pension on your VCIP since that’s a smaller number now and SGL 17 and up loses their perq bonus. This was all announced the day after layoffs were completed. Congrats now you work for less, enjoy.

if you are at least 59 1/2 years old you can do an in service (meaning you are still employed) withdrawal from our 401k into a rollover IRA without any immediate tax impact. If you are younger I believe you are stuck until your employment with the company providing the 401k ends.

There can be downsides to moving money out of your 401k to an IRA, mainly getting in the way of future Roth conversions (affects all ages). This is also a consideration in you are in the pension and are considering a lump sum payment, to be rolled into an IRA. If this is like reading Latin to you please run it by a tax or financial advisor beforehand.
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I am not saying CH11 is or is not imminent. But more actions are ahead. Some potentials:

1. More RIFs and firings
2. Changes to the severance policy to reduce total payment obligations
3. Avoiding pension fund contributions, forcing 0% lump sum option
4. Sale of the company
5. High risk schemes like selling our IP, reducing Microsoft license levels, buying auditors

Anyone completed their pension rollover after being axed. I am wondering how long it takes to hit your IRA account after getting your notice that it is being rolled over?

Trumponomics making pensions great again.

For those of us who worked at Target long enough to have a pension account, how is that handled? How do we access those funds?

Offer fair pension buyouts. Pensions are worth 1mill min over lifetime.

Everyone ready for the big changes coming for benefits? Going to be ugly with rates going way up, less PTO and freezing of the pension. RTW 50% of the time effective June 01, 2026. 2026 is the year I leave SF!

I was there starting in the early 80s. I always said if we had gone out on strike for a week or month etc IBM and Gerstner would not have done this pension heist. But they did again and again and as the writer states "...not a peep from IBM employees at the time...". I recall people were confused and disappointed more than outrageously angry as we should have been. I think it was "fog of war confusion" by IBM employees who thought it was not happening or IBM would change it's mind since the bond between employees and IBM had always been so string and trustful. For many of us our promised pensions done during recruitment and hiring/onboarding were cut by 50% or more. Enjoy this read and thanks to the author who likely reads these posts. It is too long to paste in here inline. Well worth the time to read it as it will better show you IBM's evilness that came in under Gerstner and infects IBM to this day.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml

How do the people with a pension feel? Do we have a bullseye on our backs to get rid of us?

Most deep dive analyst are now predicting bankruptcy as soon as 2026. Even with stock going so low nobody will buy the company.
Get what you can out of the pension fund now.
The cuts were just a show, most were at or near retirement age.
With no raises and flex PTO and no 401K match in 2026 is a sure sign of bankruptcy planning.

how much would be my pension lump sum?

If I am 60 years old,
$230k average last 3 years salary
32 years service with Exxon & ExxonMobil
assume interest rate 3%

1.8 million?

Long held rumours of pension changes.
What’s the scoop?

Rumors down south are that there will be changes to benefits and enforcement of in office presence.

Anyone have insights re pension changes from DB to DC or other? Elimination of EDOs?

Listen up. If you’re looking to get a job with Chevron anywhere, please do not be fooled. Chevron is building their ENGINE facilities in India and has no intention of taking care of their American workers who have built the company.

Hey, I get it… If you need a job, use them to get a job so you can have an income and benefits while you’re looking for another job. Don’t think that they will reward you if you work really hard for the company. That’s not how Chevron operates. Their MO is to use you to produce only until they find someone to do your job cheaper, as evidenced by the recent layoffs. It’s well known that they lay off older workers to cut off their pensions and hire younger workers at lower wages systematically.

Chevron has about $257 billion in assets. Their net profit was 35.465 billion in 2022, 21.369 billion in 2023, 17.661 billion in 2024 and they’re on track for 13.441 billion in 2025. Do you notice the downward trend in profits? That translates into layoffs and offshoring and outsourcing jobs for greater profitability.

Their recent layoffs were particularly brutal for their older workers. People dedicated their lives to the company under the false belief that they would retire with the full pension that they were promised when they started working for them. Your grandfather‘s Chevron is not the current Chevron that exists. As soon as this CEO is done taking his hatchet to Chevron and jumps ship with his golden parachute they will bring in a new CEO with lots of new and bold promises. Don’t fall for it.

Those of us who have been retained at Chevron know that our heads are on the chopping block. We have watched very intelligent, talented, dedicated, and experienced colleagues get laid off via email with the attitude to not let the door hit you in the a$$ on your way out. After 20 years with this company, I was appalled at how they treated my colleague at the end of his career here. No parting words of thanks, no retirement celebration, no words of praise or thanks…a simple kick in the a$$ via email and adios amigo.

PLEASE, if you’re thinking of a career at Chevron, DON’T. If you need a job, use them just long enough to land another job and get out as soon as you can. I’ve done my duty to alert you. If you’re reading this and decide to work for them, when it happens to you, you won’t be able to say that nobody ever told you or that you didn’t see it coming. A word to the wise is sufficient.

I just learned about this so want to share. If you're like me, you've likely had a large pension adjustment (PA) applied by the CRA every year only leaving you like $3-5k of RRSP room. The PA is calculated on your T4 each year and applied to the next years RRSP room. This is significant for us because our severance must be paid out in a lump sum and so there's no option to taking severance over multiple tax years to drop into lower tax brackets. The PA always bothered me because I thought 'what if we don't actually get our pension in the end because of bankruptcy/buyout/whatever' (eg: Sears).

So I just learned the way this is dealt with the pension plan issues a form T10 - Pension Adjustment Reversal (PAR) within 60 days of turning over the commuted value. According to ChatGPT it works like this... The Pension plan calculates all the pension adjustment you've had in the history of the company and adds them up, then subtracts the commuted value (CV). The difference is your PAR and it will be available in the next tax year as extra RRSP room and show up on your notice of assessment.

Example:

You are laid off in December 2025. You take your Pension CV of $200k in 2025 which becomes a tax sheltered LIRA. Over 15 years with the company you've lost $300k in RRSP room through PA's ($20k/yr * 15). Your PAR = $300k - $200k = $100k. By Feb 2026 the pension plan must report the $100k PAR to CRA. In spring 2026, your Notice of Assessment will show you have a $100k PAR, basically $100k extra RRSP room in 2026. Then also in 2026 you take your deferred severance of $200k and you can buy $100k of RRSPs that year, tax sheltering half of your severance.

I once had a claim manager tell me my house will be my retirement. I laughed at him and politely walked away. I retired early and got 50 to 60% of the pension. That was well over 10 years ago. Make your own plans. Listen to your heart and never let them control your future. You are in charge of yourself and know claims will take your health. Don't let them do it!