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February 2001

Pension integration and retirement benefits

Keith A. Bender

Pension integration generally increases benefits modestly for workers with less tenure and decreases benefits substantially for workers with more tenure; offset integrated plans have significantly higher replacement rates than excess-rate integrated plans

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