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22 119THCONGRESS
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44 STSESSION H. R. 1357
55 To increase the benefits guaranteed in connection with certain pension plans,
66 and for other purposes.
77 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
88 FEBRUARY13, 2025
99 Mr. T
1010 URNERof Ohio (for himself, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. TENNEY, Ms. MOORE
1111 of Wisconsin, Mr. W
1212 EBSTERof Florida, Mr. SMITHof Washington, Mr.
1313 R
1414 ULLI, Mr. AUSTINSCOTTof Georgia, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BERGMAN, Mr.
1515 T
1616 HANEDAR, Mr. BALDERSON, Mr. STEIL, Mr. POCAN, Mr. JOYCEof
1717 Ohio, Ms. M
1818 CDONALDRIVET, and Mrs. SPARTZ) introduced the following
1919 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce,
2020 and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to
2121 be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
2222 ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
2323 concerned
2424 A BILL
2525 To increase the benefits guaranteed in connection with
2626 certain pension plans, and for other purposes.
2727 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
2828 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
2929 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
3030 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Susan Muffley Act of 4
3131 2025’’. 5
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3535 SEC. 2. GUARANTEED BENEFIT CALCULATION FOR CER-1
3636 TAIN PLANS. 2
3737 (a) I
3838 NGENERAL.— 3
3939 (1) I
4040 NCREASE TO FULL VESTED PLAN BEN -4
4141 EFIT.— 5
4242 (A) I
4343 N GENERAL.—For purposes of deter-6
4444 mining what benefits are guaranteed under sec-7
4545 tion 4022 of the Employee Retirement Income 8
4646 Security Act of 1974 (in this section referred to 9
4747 as ‘‘ERISA’’) with respect to an eligible partici-10
4848 pant or beneficiary under a covered plan speci-11
4949 fied in paragraph (4) in connection with the 12
5050 termination of such plan, the amount of month-13
5151 ly benefits shall be equal to the full vested plan 14
5252 benefit with respect to the participant. 15
5353 (B) N
5454 O EFFECT ON PREVIOUS DETER -16
5555 MINATIONS.—Nothing in this Act shall be con-17
5656 strued to change the allocation of assets and re-18
5757 coveries under sections 4044(a) and 4022(c) of 19
5858 ERISA as previously determined by the Pension 20
5959 Benefit Guaranty Corporation (in the section 21
6060 referred to as the ‘‘corporation’’) for the cov-22
6161 ered plans specified in paragraph (4), and the 23
6262 corporation’s applicable rules, practices, and 24
6363 policies on benefits payable in terminated sin-25
6464 gle-employer plans shall, except as otherwise 26
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6868 provided in this section, continue to apply with 1
6969 respect to such covered plans. 2
7070 (2) R
7171 ECALCULATION OF CERTAIN BENEFITS .— 3
7272 (A) I
7373 N GENERAL.—In any case in which 4
7474 the amount of monthly benefits with respect to 5
7575 an eligible participant or beneficiary described 6
7676 in paragraph (1) was calculated prior to the 7
7777 date of enactment of this Act, the corporation 8
7878 shall recalculate such amount pursuant to para-9
7979 graph (1), and shall adjust any subsequent pay-10
8080 ments of such monthly benefits accordingly, as 11
8181 soon as practicable after such date. 12
8282 (B) L
8383 UMP-SUM PAYMENTS OF PAST -DUE 13
8484 BENEFITS.—Not later than 180 days after the 14
8585 date of enactment of this Act, the corporation, 15
8686 in consultation with the Secretary of the Treas-16
8787 ury and the Secretary of Labor, shall make a 17
8888 lump-sum payment to each eligible participant 18
8989 or beneficiary whose guaranteed benefits are re-19
9090 calculated under subparagraph (A) in an 20
9191 amount equal to— 21
9292 (i) in the case of an eligible partici-22
9393 pant, the excess of— 23
9494 (I) the total of the full vested 24
9595 plan benefits of the participant for all 25
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9999 months for which such guaranteed 1
100100 benefits were paid prior to such recal-2
101101 culation, over 3
102102 (II) the sum of any applicable 4
103103 payments made to the eligible partici-5
104104 pant; and 6
105105 (ii) in the case of an eligible bene-7
106106 ficiary, the sum of— 8
107107 (I) the amount that would be de-9
108108 termined under clause (i) with respect 10
109109 to the participant of which the eligible 11
110110 beneficiary is a beneficiary if such 12
111111 participant were still in pay status; 13
112112 plus 14
113113 (II) the excess of— 15
114114 (aa) the total of the full 16
115115 vested plan benefits of the eligi-17
116116 ble beneficiary for all months for 18
117117 which such guaranteed benefits 19
118118 were paid prior to such recalcula-20
119119 tion, over 21
120120 (bb) the sum of any applica-22
121121 ble payments made to the eligible 23
122122 beneficiary. 24
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126126 Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the cor-1
127127 poration shall increase each lump-sum payment 2
128128 made under this subparagraph to account for 3
129129 foregone interest in an amount determined by 4
130130 the corporation designed to reflect a 6 percent 5
131131 annual interest rate on each past-due amount 6
132132 attributable to the underpayment of guaranteed 7
133133 benefits for each month prior to such recalcula-8
134134 tion. 9
135135 (C) E
136136 LIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS AND BENE -10
137137 FICIARIES.— 11
138138 (i) I
139139 N GENERAL.—For purposes of 12
140140 this section, an eligible participant or bene-13
141141 ficiary is a participant or beneficiary 14
142142 who— 15
143143 (I) as of the date of the enact-16
144144 ment of this Act, is in pay status 17
145145 under a covered plan or is eligible for 18
146146 future payments under such plan; 19
147147 (II) has received or will receive 20
148148 applicable payments in connection 21
149149 with such plan (within the meaning of 22
150150 clause (ii)) that does not exceed the 23
151151 full vested plan benefits of such par-24
152152 ticipant or beneficiary; and 25
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156156 (III) is not covered by the 1999 1
157157 agreements between General Motors 2
158158 and various unions providing a top-up 3
159159 benefit to certain hourly employees 4
160160 who were transferred from the Gen-5
161161 eral Motors Hourly-Rate Employees 6
162162 Pension Plan to the Delphi Hourly- 7
163163 Rate Employees Pension Plan. 8
164164 (ii) A
165165 PPLICABLE PAYMENTS .—For 9
166166 purposes of this paragraph, applicable pay-10
167167 ments to a participant or beneficiary in 11
168168 connection with a plan consist of the fol-12
169169 lowing: 13
170170 (I) Payments under the plan 14
171171 equal to the normal benefit guarantee 15
172172 of the participant or beneficiary. 16
173173 (II) Payments to the participant 17
174174 or beneficiary made pursuant to sec-18
175175 tion 4022(c) or otherwise received 19
176176 from the corporation in connection 20
177177 with the termination of the plan. 21
178178 (3) D
179179 EFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-22
180180 section— 23
181181 (A) F
182182 ULL VESTED PLAN BENEFIT .—The 24
183183 term ‘‘full vested plan benefit’’ means the 25
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187187 amount of monthly benefits that would be guar-1
188188 anteed under section 4022 of ERISA as of the 2
189189 date of plan termination with respect to an eli-3
190190 gible participant or beneficiary if such section 4
191191 were applied without regard to the phase-in 5
192192 limit in subsection (b)(1) of such Act and the 6
193193 maximum guaranteed benefit limitation in sub-7
194194 section (b)(3) of such Act (including the ac-8
195195 crued-at-normal limitation). 9
196196 (B) N
197197 ORMAL BENEFIT GUARANTEE .—The 10
198198 term ‘‘normal benefit guarantee’’ means the 11
199199 amount of monthly benefits guaranteed under 12
200200 such section with respect to an eligible partici-13
201201 pant or beneficiary without regard to this Act. 14
202202 (4) C
203203 OVERED PLANS.—The covered plans speci-15
204204 fied in this paragraph are the following: 16
205205 (A) The Delphi Hourly-Rate Employees 17
206206 Pension Plan. 18
207207 (B) The Delphi Retirement Program for 19
208208 Salaried Employees. 20
209209 (C) The PHI Non-Bargaining Retirement 21
210210 Plan. 22
211211 (D) The ASEC Manufacturing Retirement 23
212212 Program. 24
213213 (E) The PHI Bargaining Retirement Plan. 25
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217217 (F) The Delphi Mechatronic Systems Re-1
218218 tirement Program. 2
219219 (5) T
220220 REATMENT OF PBGC DETERMINATIONS .— 3
221221 Any determination made by the corporation under 4
222222 this section concerning a recalculation of benefits or 5
223223 lump-sum payment of past-due benefits shall be sub-6
224224 ject to administrative review by the corporation. Any 7
225225 new determination made by the corporation under 8
226226 this section shall be governed by the same adminis-9
227227 trative review process as any other benefit deter-10
228228 mination by the corporation. 11
229229 (b) T
230230 RUSTFUND FORPAYMENT OF INCREASED 12
231231 B
232232 ENEFITS.— 13
233233 (1) E
234234 STABLISHMENT.—There is established in 14
235235 the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to 15
236236 be known as the ‘‘Delphi Full Vested Plan Benefit 16
237237 Trust Fund’’ (hereafter in this subsection referred 17
238238 to as the ‘‘Fund’’), consisting of such amounts as 18
239239 may be appropriated or credited to the Fund as pro-19
240240 vided in this section. 20
241241 (2) F
242242 UNDING.—There is appropriated from the 21
243243 general fund such amounts as are necessary for the 22
244244 costs of the payment of the portion of monthly bene-23
245245 fits guaranteed to a participant or beneficiary pursu-24
246246 ant to subsection (a) and for necessary administra-25
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250250 tive and operating expenses of the corporation relat-1
251251 ing to such payment. The Fund shall be credited 2
252252 with amounts from time to time as the Secretary of 3
253253 the Treasury, in conjunction with the Director of the 4
254254 corporation, determines appropriate, from the gen-5
255255 eral fund of the Treasury. 6
256256 (3) E
257257 XPENDITURES FROM FUND .—Amounts in 7
258258 the Fund shall be available for the payment of the 8
259259 portion of monthly benefits guaranteed to a partici-9
260260 pant or beneficiary pursuant to subsection (a) and 10
261261 for necessary administrative and operating expenses 11
262262 of the corporation relating to such payment. 12
263263 (c) R
264264 EGULATIONS.—The corporation, in consultation 13
265265 with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of 14
266266 Labor, may issue such regulations as necessary to carry 15
267267 out this section. 16
268268 (d) T
269269 AXTREATMENT OF LUMP-SUMPAYMENTS.— 17
270270 (1) I
271271 N GENERAL.—Unless the taxpayer elects 18
272272 (at such time and in such manner as the Secretary 19
273273 may provide) to have this paragraph not apply with 20
274274 respect to any lump-sum payment under subsection 21
275275 (a)(2)(B), the amount of such payment shall be in-22
276276 cluded in the taxpayer’s gross income ratably over 23
277277 the 3-taxable-year period beginning with the taxable 24
278278 year in which such payment is received. 25
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282282 (2) SPECIAL RULES RELATED TO DEATH .— 1
283283 (A) I
284284 N GENERAL.—If the taxpayer dies be-2
285285 fore the end of the 3-taxable-year period de-3
286286 scribed in paragraph (1), any amount to which 4
287287 paragraph (1) applies which has not been in-5
288288 cluded in gross income for a taxable year end-6
289289 ing before the taxable year in which such death 7
290290 occurs shall be included in gross income for 8
291291 such taxable year. 9
292292 (B) S
293293 PECIAL ELECTION FOR SURVIVING 10
294294 SPOUSES OF ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS .—If— 11
295295 (i) a taxpayer with respect to whom 12
296296 paragraph (1) applies dies, 13
297297 (ii) such taxpayer is an eligible partic-14
298298 ipant, 15
299299 (iii) the surviving spouse of such eligi-16
300300 ble participant is entitled to a survivor 17
301301 benefit from the corporation with respect 18
302302 to such eligible participant, and 19
303303 (iv) such surviving spouse elects (at 20
304304 such time and in such manner as the Sec-21
305305 retary may provide) the application of this 22
306306 subparagraph, 23
307307 subparagraph (A) shall not apply and any 24
308308 amount which would have (but for such tax-25
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312312 payer’s death) been included in the gross in-1
313313 come of such taxpayer under paragraph (1) for 2
314314 any taxable year beginning after the date of 3
315315 such death shall be included in the gross in-4
316316 come of such surviving spouse for the taxable 5
317317 year of such surviving spouse ending with or 6
318318 within such taxable year of the taxpayer. 7
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