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The BenefitsLink Newsletter December 17, 1999 What's New - Top Stories Connecticut Attorney General Takes on HMOs Washington Post [More like this] N.J. Insurers Will Cover Experimental Cancer Treatments OnHealth.com [More like this] Gore, Bradley Debate Health Care MacNeil-Lehrer Online Newshour [More like this] Understanding the Assault on Cash Balance Plans Faegre & Benson [More like this] Fund Manager Indicted In Kickback Scheme news.excite.com [More like this] Feds: Kickbacks Funded Lavish Life news.excite.com [More like this] Fund Manager Indicted In $6M Scheme ABC News Wire [More like this] New (to Us) Noteworthy Links Are You Watching Your 401(k) Costs? Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, orig. pub. 7/99 [More like this] The Pros and Cons of 401(k) Stock Plans Benefits and Compensation Solutions [More like this] Preach the Value of Thrift Benefits and Compensation Solutions [More like this] The Key Issues of Co-employment Benefits and Compensation Solutions [More like this] Going Private in the Public Sector: The Transition From Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Pension Plans (PDF) Pension Research Council Working Paper [More like this] Public Pensions in Washington, DC (PDF) Pension Research Council Working Paper [More like this] Public Pension Design and Responses to a Changing Workforce (PDF) Pension Research Council Working Paper [More like this] Managing Pensions in the 21st Century: Design Innovations, Market Impact, and Regulatory Issues for Japan (PDF) Pension Research Council Working Paper [More like this] Florida's Public Pension Reform Debate: A Discussion of the Issues and Estimates of the Option Costs (PDF) Pension Research Council Working Paper [More like this] Getting Around the Early Distribution Penalty Nolo.com [More like this] BenefitsBoards.net - Top Topics When forfeitures have always been used to offset employer contributions and there is still money in a forfeiture account after plan termination, what should be done with the money? In a terminated defined benefit plan, has anyone ever had a problem doing a post-termination amendment specifying the allocation of surplus assets?

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