Bill > HR1357

This bill, named the Susan Muffley Act of 2025, aims to increase pension benefits for certain participants of specific retirement plans, primarily focusing on the Delphi Hourly-Rate Employees Pension Plan and several other related pension plans. The bill instructs the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to recalculate guaranteed benefits for eligible participants, ensuring they receive their full vested plan benefits without previous limitations on maximum guaranteed benefits. For participants who have already received benefits, the PBGC must recalculate their monthly benefits and provide a lump-sum payment within 180 days that accounts for past underpayments, including a 6% annual interest rate on the past-due amounts. Eligible participants are those currently in pay status or eligible for future payments, who have not received benefits exceeding their full vested plan benefits, and are not covered by certain pre-existing union agreements. To fund these increased benefits, the bill establishes a new trust fund in the U.S. Treasury called the Delphi Full Vested Plan Benefit Trust Fund, which will be appropriated necessary funds from the general treasury. The bill also provides special tax treatment for the lump-sum payments, allowing recipients to spread the tax liability over three years or providing alternative provisions for surviving spouses.

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