Updated mortality tables released by the IRS last week will make the cost of employers' defined benefit plans more expensive.

That news will not come as a shock to plan sponsors and actuaries.

The IRS delayed implementing the new mortality numbers, which impact how plans calculate funding status, annual required contributions to pension plans, and the premiums they pay the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., in 2015.

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