funded status meaning

• [Finance]
  The status of pension plan that has accumulated assets that have been set aside for the payment of retirement benefits to employees. Unfunded plans, also called pay-as-you-go arrangements, do not have assets set aside and retirement benefits are usually paid directly from employer contributions.

• The school remained under control of the College until 1988, when it switched to its current directly funded status.
• The ongoing financial crisis drove the 100 largest corporate pension plans to a record $ 300 billion loss of funded status in 2008.
• After those realignments, there were too few AEN member parties left to retain its EU-funded status as a political party at European level.
• That airport's federally funded status was transferred to Syracuse Suburban Airport, where a new runway was under construction in 2009 . The new runway was completed in 2010.
• Historically, most pension plan sponsors conducted comprehensive asset / liability studies every three to five years or after a significant change in demographics, plan design, funded status, sponsor circumstances, or funding legislation.

• "funded status" meaning in Chinese: 资金状况
• "funded status" meaning in Japanese: 拠出状態｛きょしゅつ じょうたい｝