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Contractor Pension Plan Costs: More Control Could Save Department of Defense Millions

PSAD-77-100 Published: May 19, 1977. Publicly Released: May 19, 1977.
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The government incurred pension plan costs that were inequitable and too high because the Department of Defense (DOD) permitted actuarial assumptions or unjustified changes in actuarial cost methods.

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