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Re:McClatchy files bankruptcy by gruez on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:31PM (#22319570)
>with 10 pensioners for every single active employee

This shouldn't be an issue if the pension was pre-funded, which I thought was supposed to be the case in the US.

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Re:McClatchy files bankruptcy by ETHisso2017 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:41PM (#22319666)
They pre-funded it assuming a given life expectancy and per-year healthcare costs. People started living past that life expectancy and healthcare costs rose much more quickly than expected...
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Re:McClatchy files bankruptcy by vkou on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:39PM (#22320159)
What do per-year healthcare costs have to do with an underfunded pension?

Was one of the benefits of the pension a healthcare plan?

The article doesn't say that it was.

If it was, though, that is pants-on-head stupid. A pension is supposed to be a fixed payment investment, not a variable-payment one.

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Re:McClatchy files bankruptcy by lotsofpulp on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:34PM (#22320659)
They're separate benefits and don't have to do with one another. Retiree healthcare is a rare benefit in the non government world, and is usually classified as OPEB (other post employment benefit).
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