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How Will COVID-19 Affect Pensions for Noncovered Workers?

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  • Jean-Pierre Aubry
  • Kevin Wandrei
  • Laura D. Quinby

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Federal law allows certain state and local government employees to be excluded from Social Security if they are covered by an employer pension of sufficient generosity. As a result, approximately one-quarter of state and local workers are not covered by Social Security on their current job. Before COVID-19, these "FICA replacement plans" all satisfied the letter of the law in terms of providing benefits of sufficient generosity. This study has three aims. The first is to document the immediate impact of COVID-19 on the financial status of FICA replacement plans. The second is to investigate whether COVID-19 has led to cuts in benefit promises among plans, as well as the likelihood of future cuts. The third is to investigate the likelihood that FICA replacement plans will exhaust their trust fund assets and default on benefit promises.

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  • Jean-Pierre Aubry & Kevin Wandrei & Laura D. Quinby, 2021. "How Will COVID-19 Affect Pensions for Noncovered Workers?," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2021-19, Center for Retirement Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:crr:crrwps:wp2021-19
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