Stephanie Sent

ASA, EA, MAAA

Principal & Consulting Actuary

Seattle, WA, US

Stephanie Sent is a principal and consulting actuary with the Seattle office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 2004.

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Experience

Stephanie has 30 years of experience in employee benefits. Her specific area of expertise is the pension field, with a particular emphasis on large and medium-sized clients. She has assisted clients with many aspects of defined benefit plans, including actuarial valuations, projections of costs, plan design, plan administration, financial reporting and expense calculations under FASB ASC Topic 715, and nondiscrimination testing for both defined benefit and cafeteria plans. Additionally, Stephanie has experience performing postretirement medical valuations.

Publications and Presentations

Minimum and Maximum Funding
ASC Topic 715 Accounting Issues
Phased Retirement
PPA Min/Max Funding for Single Employer Plans
PPA-Lessons Learned; What Plan Sponsors Need to Know
Late Retirement Overview of Post-NRA Defined Benefit Calculations
Lump-sum Project Case Study
IRS Substitute Mortality Tables
Sustainable Income Plan Q&As
Plan Design Alternatives

Professional Designations

Associate, Society of Actuaries
Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Enrolled Actuary, ERISA
Fellow, Conference of Consulting Actuaries

Education

BS (<em>magna cum laude</em>), Applied Mathematics, Western Washington University
MS, Mathematics, Western Washington University

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Publications

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How the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 can impact corporate pension plans: Four case studies

16 April 2021 - by Ryan Cook, Rex Barker, Ryan Rowland, Stephanie Sent

We present four case studies to show how the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 can impact corporate pension plans.

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Navigating retirement risks

18 December 2018 - by Kelly Coffing, Ryan Cook, Micah Darnall, Bret Linton, Bruce R. Mitton, Sarah Murray, Arthur Rains-McNally, Stephanie Sent

The retirement benefit is an important component of the benefits package, but most retirement plans are falling short.

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Read their latest work

How the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 can impact corporate pension plans: Four case studies

Navigating retirement risks

Updated mortality tables for DB plan lump-sum payments starting in 2018

Five things to consider for a lump-sum sweep

Is 2015 the year of lump-sum sweeps?

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