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What's the Problem?---Just Print Money!

U.S. Postal Service to Stop Paying Into Worker Pension Fund

By Angela Greiling Keane and John Hughes - Jun 22, 2011 12:51 PM PT Wed Jun 22 19:51:31 GMT 2011

The suspension will save the Postal Service $800 million through the end of its fiscal year, it said. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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June 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Postal Service, facing insolvency unless it gets approval to delay a $5.5 billion payment for worker health benefits, will suspend contributions to an employee retirement account to save $800 million this year. Jon Erlichman reports on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)

The U.S. Postal Service, facing insolvency without approval to delay a $5.5 billion payment for worker health benefits, will suspend contributions to an employee retirement account to save $800 million this year.

The Postal Service will stop paying employer contributions to the defined-benefit Federal Employees Retirement System, which covers about 85 percent of career postal workers, it said today in an e-mailed statement. The $115 million payment, made every other week, will stop on June 24, the statement said.

Suspending payments to the retirement account will help “conserve cash and preserve liquidity,” the statement said. The agency estimates it has overpaid by $6.9 billion and has asked Congress to pass legislation to return that money.

Congress must “make bold, quick and substantive reforms,” said Art Sackler, executive director of the Washington-based Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service, which represents corporate mail customers. “The USPS is hanging by a thread.”

The agency and U.S. Office of Personnel Management will ask the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to analyze the decision, said David Partenheimer, a Postal Service spokesman.

“Regardless of the outcome of the Office of Legal Counsel review, the Postal Service believes there will be no impact on employees,” Partenheimer said in an e-mail.

Read More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-22/u-s-postal-service-will-suspen...

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