Carrie Vaughn

Carrie focuses solely on defined benefit plans, specializing in consulting on several multiemployer pension plans. She works closely with clients on all aspects of pension plan management, including actuarial valuations, funding projections, plan design studies and implementation, experience studies, funding strategies, legislative impact studies, plan administration, and participant communications. She is one of the primary developers of Milliman’s Online Projection Model and Information Center (OPTIC). Some of her recent projects include:

• Developing and implementing alternative plan designs
• Developing and monitoring rehabilitation and funding improvement plans
• Consulting on funding and benefits policies
• Consulting on withdrawal liability procedures and determinations
• Performing risk analysis for multiemployer pension plans, including stochastic projections
• Analyzing multiemployer plan mergers
• Modeling legislative changes
• Developing communications to plan participants
• Supporting Application for Special Financial Assistance under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021