[Federal Register: July 16, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 136)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 38533-38534] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr16jy99-18] [[Page 38533]] _______________________________________________________________________ Part V Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation _______________________________________________________________________ 29 CFR Part 4044 Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Valuing Benefits; Correction; Final Rule [[Page 38534]] PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION 29 CFR Part 4044 Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Valuing Benefits; Correction AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. ACTION: Final rule; correction. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This document corrects a final rule document published by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on July 15, 1999 (at 64 FR 38114). The rule prescribes interest assumptions for valuing benefits under terminating single-employer plans. EFFECTIVE DATE: August 1, 1999. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harold J. Ashner, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202-326-4024. (For TTY/TDD users, call the Federal relay service toll-free at 1-800- 877-8339 and ask to be connected to 202-326-4024.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PBGC's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans (29 CFR part 4044) prescribes actuarial assumptions for valuing plan benefits of terminating single-employer plans covered by title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Among the actuarial assumptions prescribed in part 4044 are interest assumptions. On July 15, 1999, the PBGC published in the Federal Register (at 64 FR 38114) a final rule amending the regulation to adopt interest assumptions for plans with valuation dates in August 1999. In that final rule document, the i1 rate was erroneously published as 4.00 percent rather than 4.25 percent. Accordingly, the final rule document is corrected as follows: 1. In the preamble, the last two sentences in the second full paragraph on page 38115 are corrected to read as follows: ``For benefits to be paid as lump sums, the interest assumptions to be used by the PBGC will be 5.00 percent for the period during which a benefit is in pay status, 4.25 percent during the seven-year period directly preceding the benefit's placement in pay status, and 4.00 percent during any other years preceding the benefit's placement in pay status. The lump sum interest assumptions represent an increase (from those in effect for July 1999) of 0.50 percent for the period during which a benefit is in pay status and 0.25 percent for the seven years directly preceding that period; they are otherwise unchanged.'' Appendix B to Part 4044 [Corrected] 2. On page 38115, the entry in Table II is corrected to read as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For plans with a valuation date Immediate Deferred annuities (percent) Rate set ---------------------------------- annuity rate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On or after Before (percent) i1 i2 i3 n1 n2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * 70 08-1-99 09-1-99 5.00 4.25 4.00 4.00 7 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issued in Washington, DC on this 15th day of July 1999. David M. Strauss, Exercutive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. [FR Doc. 99-18404 Filed 7-15-99; 10:19 am] BILLING CODE 7708-01-P