If the GM pension plans are terminated, they would be at least $20 billion underfunded, according to the government's Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. The federal agency would insure about $4 billion of that gap, leaving the GM pension plans with $100 billion in obligations and only $84 billion in assets.
if the Chrysler pension plans are terminated, they would be at least $9 billion underfunded, according to the agency, which would insure about $2 billion of that. This would leave the Chrysler pension plans with $28 billion in obligations and only $20 billion of assets, according to the pension agency.
When Daimler sold Chrysler to the private equity firm Cerberus in 2007, it agreed to contribute $1 billion to the PBGC if the agency ever had to take over Chrysler's pensions. Daimler might now have to live up to that agreement.
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