Word: payouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the trust fund meant Social Security was self-supporting and that therefore benefits were beyond dispute? The argument was always nonsense. The people paying in money are different from the people drawing it out, so the size of the pay-in says nothing about the justice of the payout. And where are the trust-fund zealots now? If it's immoral bordering on treasonous to raid the Social Security trust fund for other government purposes (though all that means is borrowing the money with interest), why is it not even controversial to raid general revenues to shore up Social...
More importantly, students will actually be seeing the money. Contrary to Harvard's normally Scrooge-like policy of hoarding for a rainy day, the University has spent and plans to continue spending on a number of important projects. Last year's increase in the endowment payout--signifying greater per-student spending--was preceded by a $9 million financial aid increase. New buildings have been constructed (Maxwell Dworkin), old buildings have or will been renovated (Widener Library, University Hall) and vestigial stumps will be made whole again (Memorial Hall tower...
...provide pensions, but they are a given in most large companies. Though close to two-thirds of all workers actually do better under a cash-balance plan, 40- to 50-year-olds about to enter their peak earning years can lose up to half of their expected final payout. To drive that point home, some Big Blue employees flew a banner over the Minnesota state fair that read, IBM'S PENSION THEFT COULD HAPPEN...
...resulting tax liabilities to shareholders once a year, usually in November or December. Most investors never take a fund's distribution as cash; they reinvest it and pay the tax out of pocket. That's why the worst time to buy a stock fund is just before the annual payout. You get hit for a year's worth of taxes even if you owned the fund briefly...
...Snoopy's company just yet, though; That $1.7 billion isn't all going to its customers. Although lawyers' fees could top $100 million, the company hopes to pay most of those 7 million customers in additional coverage rather than in cash. In such a scenario, the payout is based on what it would cost consumers to buy that additional coverage, not what it is costing the company to provide it. And execs have already bought settlement insurance to take care of that amount. Most important, the deal gives Met Life a clean slate as it heads into...