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the teachers’ contributions are placed in
individual accounts, while the state’s
contributions are available to meet cur
rent pension payments, with any bal
ance being available as a general re
serve. The maintenance of modified
rather than full reserves permits lower
initial contributions by the governing
body, does not require as large a pen
sion reserve fund as would be necessary
under the full reserve plan, and if pro
perly developed and supervised may be
financially sound while still avoiding
the necessity of greatly increased con
tributions by the governing body in
later years.
In the second place, criticisms are
sometimes directed at provisions com
monly found in allocation reserve plans,
but not essential characteristics of such
plans. For example, allocation reserve
plans do not normally definitely state
the sum which will be paid as an an
nuity, that being made to depend on
the contributions and rate of interest
received. This indefiniteness, if consid
ered serious, could be met by varying
the rate of contribution according to
such factors as the age and sex of the
employee, so that a definite sum could
be promised as a pension.
The specific advantages of the ac
tuarial reserve plan are: (1) lower
costs because accumulated interest com
pounded annually bears a part of the
cost, (2) costs are known w ith suffi
cient accuracy so th at benefits are lim
ited to the financial abilities of the par
ticipants, (3) the plan is in accord w ith
the policy of “pay as you go,” since it
distributes the financing burdens equit-
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