As Social Security Slants Benefits in Favor of Lower-Paid Workers,the

question 29

Multiple Choice

As Social Security slants benefits in favor of lower-paid workers,the Internal Revenue Code permits employers to adjust pension contributions so that the overall contributions (pension plus Social Security) are nondiscriminatory.This adjustment permits employers to increase pension contributions for highly-compensated employees.Adjusting contributions to consider Social Security contributions is called

• A)prorating.
• B)indexing.
• C)offset.
• D)integration.

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Equal-variances T-test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups, assuming that both groups have the same variance.

Normal Populations

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Population Means

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Two Independent Samples

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