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Pension Vesting

What is Pension Vesting? It's when an employee has earned a pension, from an employer, due to years of service worked.

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This is the employer's portion of the pension, regardless of whether the employee continues to work until retirement or not. In 2002, the basic vesting guidelines were:

  • 3 years service = 100% vested

  • 6 years service: after 2 yrs of service, 20% vested, 3 yrs = 40%, 4 yrs = 60%, 5 yrs= 80%, and 6 yrs is 100% vested.

    However, those are only guidelines and many employers set their own vesting requirements. My employer had 8 year vesting.

    The reason pension vesting is SO important -- you might take another job just 2 weeks before you are vested... losing a lifetime monthly pension. Yikes! It might be years away, or just days away -- just know what that vesting date is before you make these huge lifetime changing decisions!

    If this is a Defined Benefit pension plan, there may be a “deferred retirement” benefit due. For example, maybe you leave employment after ten years of service, you could either: (1) refund your contributions and forfeit your lifetime pension OR (2) you could leave your monies in the fund, and years later, maybe age 60, you'd return to collect a monthly lifetime pension based on the ten years worked.

    If this was a Defined Contribution pension plan, the six year guideline above might appear. As the employer is contributing towards your DC account, you get a percentage, if you leave early, of that fund.

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