Originally Posted by
FamilyATM
$1.00 in 2008 had the same buying power as $1.17 in 2018. So, it appears to me my A plan has lost 17% of it’s value.
The thread, and the financial disclosures it's based upon, address the financial funding status of our A plan.
Your statement is merely a statement of inflation.
These are two different issues.
Indexing our current A plan earnings limit to some measure of inflation would be an improvement and one way to fix the "inflation" issue.
However, the argument that we must change to a "variable plan" and take on the investment risk, along with losing our "High 5" based retirement mode, is NOT supported by a factual argument that the current A fund is underfunded.
Once 2017 results are included, I think we will find the A fund is even healthier.
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