11.   In a defined-benefit plan, the employer assumes all investment risks for promising to pay a pension based on pay and years on the job.

12.   Instead, governments themselves are directly responsible for paying them pensions, which means pension assets are effectively part of the budget.

13.   Norway must resist that urge and keep to its program of reducing inflation and using oil money to pay pensions, he said.

14.   Questions still remain concerning its ability to pay pensions, and the county faces a slew of pending litigation.

15.   Severance pensions are paid by companies to low-income workers and are often used as a form of savings plan.

16.   Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program, with current tax revenues paying the pensions of current retirees.

17.   The Jewish Claims Conference, which represents thousands of survivors, is asking that Germany pay their pensions.

18.   The social improvement can be considerable, when Chubais penalizes employers who do not pay wages on time and makes sure that the state does pay pensions.

19.   These pensions are paid by companies to low-income workers and are often used as a form of savings plan to buy a home.

20.   To put France Telecom on an even keel, the state plans to assume responsibility for paying pensions to civil servants employed by the company.