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H.R. 7327 (110th)

Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008

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Introduced

10 December 2008

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Status

Became Public Law No: 110-458.

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Subjects

Discovery layer

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21 July 2025

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Summary

Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 - Makes technical corrections to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to conform to the Pension Protection Act of 2006 regarding various specified items, including: (1) the target normal cost of benefits; (2) specified implementation and effective dates for certain requirements; (3) one-participant retirement plans; (4) special age-related rules in accrued benefit requirements for applicable defined benefit plans; (5) inapplicability in certain cases of the limitation on income deductions (for tax purposes) for employer contributions to one or more defined contribution plans; and (6) adjustments to averaging in the determination of the value of the assets of single-employer defined benefit pension plans for minimum funding purposes. Makes technical corrections to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with respect to railroad retirement payments to persons not entitled to an annuity. Makes technical corrections to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 with respect to special age-related rules for determination of the market rate of return in the calculation of interest credits in governmental defined benefit plans. Makes technical corrections to the Internal Revenue Code to modify: (1) the interest rate assumption required with respect to certain small employer plans; and (2) the penalties for failure to file partnership returns and S corporation returns. Prescribes a special rule for exclusion from gross income of certain reimbursements from governmental plans for medical care. Requires treatment as a qualified rollover contribution of any airline payment amount received by a qualified airline employee in an airline carrier bankruptcy which is transferred to a Roth IRA. Revises asset valuation rules for certain commercial airline benefit plans. Provides a waiver of minimum distribution requirements for certain retirement plans for 2009. Sets forth requirements to: (1) provide for the delay of the designation of multiemployer benefit plans as endangered or critical for FY2009; and (2) extend the funding improvement and rehabilitation periods for such plans that are endangered or critical for FY2008 or FY2009.

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