Defined Benefit Pensions: Survey of Sponsors of Large Defined Benefit Pension Plans (GAO-08-818SP, July 2008), an E-supplement to GAO-08-817

Status of Defined Benefit Plans

Throughout the survey we will ask a number of questions about your pension plans. For purposes of this survey, we ask that you refer to your tax-qualified defined benefit pension plans only. Additionally, we use the term single-employer to refer to plans covered under the single-employer pension insurance program. Thus, a multiple-employer plan, which is a unique type of single-employer plan, is included under this definition. You will be able to specifically indicate that your firm sponsors a multiple-employer plan later in the survey. Multiple-employer plans should not be confused with multiemployer plans (sometimes called "Taft-Hartley plans"), which are an entirely different plan type that should not be included in this survey.

1.	Which best describes your firm's sponsorship of a single-employer, defined benefit plan?
	*(Please check one.)*
	1.	Currently sponsor at least one tax qualified, single-employer, defined benefit plan insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) (Click here to go to question 2.)
	2.	Do not sponsor a tax-qualified, single-employer, defined benefit pension plan insured by the PBGC (Click here to go to Contact Information)

2.	How many tax-qualified, PBGC insured single-employer defined benefit pension plans does your firm currently sponsor? (Please enter number.)
	Tax-qualified, single-employer defined benefit pension plan(s)

3.	Currently, about how many total participants do you have in the sponsored plan(s) from Question 2? Total participants includes active participants, retired participants, and separated vested participants.
	*(Please check one.)*
	1.	0-99
	2.	100-999
	3.	1,000-9,999
	4.	10,000-49,999
	5.	50,000 or more

Full Report: GAO-08-817

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