Current Disbursement
Payment of premiums and benefits as they come due. In pension plans, known as the "pay as you go basis." The plan depends on new employees coming into the work force so that their contributions can help pay for the benefits of the retiring employees. If the company is not experiencing growth and is in fact part of a matured or even a dying industry, there may not be enough on hand to pay benefits of retiring employees.
Popular Insurance Terms
Value of a foregone opportunity, one rejected in favor of a presumably better opportunity. For example, investment of a sum into a mutual fund instead of a variable annuity with a ...
Effective proprietor of a business. Under the tax reform act of 1986, a uniform accrual rule prevents a qualified pension plan from being weighted in favor of the substantial owner of the ...
Same as term cash surrender value: money the policyowner is entitled to receive from the insurance company upon surrendering a life insurance policy with cash value. The sum is the cash ...
Means of setting life insurance reserves based on expected mortality rates as reflected in a mortality table. ...
Addition to a workers compensation insurance policy to cover payments to injured employees who are not covered by a state's workers compensation law. This endorsement provides employees who ...
Change in the nature of an employer or other organization that sponsors a qualified pension plan. A qualified plan must guarantee vested benefits due to participants in the event of a ...
Risk that premiums and reinsurance, as well as other receivable instruments, will not be collected. ...
Employee's right to transfer pension benefit credits from a former employer to a current employer. ...
Automatic right of an insured to renew a policy until a given date or age except under stated conditions. It is extremely important for the purchaser to review the conditions for renewal in ...

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