On September 19, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published final regulations providing guidance on hybrid pension plans that includes some items of interest to multiemployer pension plan trustees. Although mainly focused on cash balance and pension equity plans, the guidance includes provisions related to variable annuity pension plans (VAPPs), which have been drawing attention among trustees who believe there is enormous value in the defined benefit system. Some of the more onerous provisions needed to satisfy hybrid plan rules are now explicitly removed for VAPPs, and trustees adopting VAPPs have been given more flexibility in plan design. This Multiemployer Alert goes into some of the details.