Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress

Raise the PBGC variable rate premium and end the per-participant cap

Not started

610 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Congress should increase the variable rate premium on underfunding and eliminate the per-participant cap in order to appropriately take into account risk and limit the degree to which well-funded pension plans must subsidize underfunded plans.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    No bill of the 119th Congress raises the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's variable rate premium or removes the per-participant cap. The premium structure in 29 U.S.C. 1306 is unchanged, and the Corporation's own rulemaking in the window does not touch premiums.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the pension asks (#1680, #1681, #1684).
  • The variable rate premium and its cap are set by statute and indexed; only Congress can change either, which is why an executive workaround does not exist to record.
Action
other
Object
PBGC premium structure
ID
1684