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Cash Balance Plan

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cash balance plan
A qualified employer pension plan in which the employer guarantees a contribution level and minimum rate of return.

Cash Balance Plan
A pension plan that combines features of a defined-benefit plan and a defined-contribution plan. Like a defined-benefit plan, a cash balance plan guarantees the pensioner a certain benefit upon retirement. That is, the amount one receives from a cash balance plan does not vary according to the performance of some portfolio. Like a defined-contribution plan, the employer agrees to place a certain percentage of one's salary into the plan each year, and accounts are created on an individual basis. A cash balance plan can be rolled over into another account if the employee changes jobs. As such, it is relatively popular with younger workers.

Cash balance plan. A cash balance retirement plan is a defined benefit plan that has many of the characteristics of a defined contribution plan.

The benefit that you'll be entitled to builds up as credits to a hypothetical account. The hypothetical account is credited with hypothetical earnings, based on a percentage of your current pay.

These plans are portable, which means you can roll them over from one employer to another when you change jobs. That makes them popular with younger and mobile workers.

But they are often unpopular with older workers whose employers switch from a defined benefit to cash balance plan because their pensions may be less than with traditional defined benefit plans.



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