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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (i212) i395-1000
iNot Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
i☐
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
i☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
i☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
i☐
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of Each Class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name
of Each Exchange on Which Registered
iCommon Stock, par value $0.10
iVZ
iNew
York Stock Exchange
iCommon Stock, par value $0.10
iVZ
iThe Nasdaq
Global Select Market
i4.073% Notes due 2024
iVZ 24C
iNew York Stock
Exchange
i0.875% Notes due 2025
iVZ 25
iNew York Stock Exchange
i3.25%
Notes due 2026
iVZ 26
iNew York Stock Exchange
i1.375% Notes due
2026
iVZ 26B
iNew York Stock Exchange
i0.875% Notes due 2027
iVZ
27E
iNew York Stock Exchange
i1.375% Notes due 2028
iVZ 28
iNew
York Stock Exchange
i1.125% Notes due 2028
iVZ 28A
iNew York
Stock Exchange
i2.350% Fixed Rate Notes due 2028
iVZ 28C
iNew
York Stock Exchange
i1.875% Notes due 2029
iVZ 29B
iNew York
Stock Exchange
i0.375% Notes due 2029
iVZ 29D
iNew York Stock
Exchange
i1.250% Notes due 2030
iVZ 30
iNew York Stock Exchange
i1.875%
Notes due 2030
iVZ 30A
iNew York Stock Exchange
i4.250% Notes
due 2030
iVZ 30D
iNew York Stock Exchange
i2.625% Notes due
2031
iVZ 31
iNew York Stock Exchange
i2.500% Notes due 2031
iVZ
31A
iNew York Stock Exchange
i3.000% Fixed Rate Notes due 2031
iVZ
31D
iNew York Stock Exchange
i0.875% Notes due 2032
iVZ 32
iNew
York Stock Exchange
i0.750% Notes due 2032
iVZ 32A
iNew York
Stock Exchange
i1.300% Notes due 2033
iVZ 33B
iNew York Stock
Exchange
i4.75% Notes due 2034
iVZ 34
iNew York Stock Exchange
i4.750%
Notes due 2034
iVZ 34C
iNew York Stock Exchange
i3.125% Notes
due 2035
iVZ 35
iNew York Stock Exchange
i1.125% Notes due 2035
iVZ
35A
iNew York Stock Exchange
i3.375% Notes due 2036
iVZ 36A
iNew
York Stock Exchange
i2.875% Notes due 2038
iVZ 38B
iNew York
Stock Exchange
i1.875% Notes due 2038
iVZ 38C
iNew York Stock
Exchange
i1.500% Notes due 2039
iVZ 39C
iNew York Stock Exchange
i3.50%
Fixed Rate Notes due 2039
iVZ 39D
iNew York Stock Exchange
i1.850%
Notes due 2040
iVZ 40
iNew York Stock Exchange
i3.850% Fixed
Rate Notes due 2041
iVZ 41C
iNew York Stock Exchange
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405
of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
i☐ Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Item 7.01.
Regulation FD Disclosure
On February 29, 2024, Verizon Communications Inc. (“Verizon”) entered into two separate commitment agreements, one by and between Verizon, State Street Global Advisors Trust Company (“State Street”), as independent fiduciary of the Verizon Management Pension Plan and Verizon Pension Plan for Associates (the “Pension Plans”), and The Prudential Insurance Company of America (“Prudential”), and one by and between Verizon, State Street and RGA Reinsurance Company (“RGA”), under which the Pension Plans purchased a nonparticipating single premium group annuity contract from Prudential and a nonparticipating single premium group annuity contract
from RGA to settle approximately $5.9 billion of benefit liabilities of the Pension Plans.
The purchase of the group annuity contracts closed on March 6, 2024. The group annuity contracts primarily cover a population that includes 56,000 retirees who commenced benefit payments from the Pension Plans prior to January 1, 2023 (“Transferred Participants”). Prudential and RGA each irrevocably guarantee and assume the sole obligation to make future payments to the Transferred Participants as provided under their respective group annuity contracts,
with direct payments beginning July 1, 2024. Prudential and RGA will each assume 50% of the benefit obligation related to Transferred Participants, except in certain jurisdictions where Prudential will assume 100% of the benefit obligation related to Transferred Participants residing in such jurisdictions. The aggregate amount of each Transferred Participant’s payment under the group annuity contracts will be equal to the amount of each individual’s payment under the Pension Plans.
Participants in the Pension Plans who are not covered by the group annuity contracts, including management and associate retirees who commenced benefit payments on or after January
1, 2023 and active and term vested managers and associates, will not be affected by this transaction.
Transferred Participants will continue to receive their benefits from the Pension Plans until July 1, 2024, at which time Prudential will assume responsibility for administrative services, including distribution of payments to the Transferred Participants, on behalf of itself and, where applicable, RGA.
The purchase of the group annuity contracts was funded directly by assets of the Pension Plans. Verizon made additional contributions to the Pension Plans prior to the closing date of the transaction in the aggregate amount of approximately $365 million. With
these contributions, the funded ratio of each of the Pension Plans does not change as a result of this transaction.
As a result of the transaction, Verizon expects to recognize a one-time non-cash pension settlement credit in the first quarter of 2024. The actual amount of the credit will depend on finalization of the actuarial and other assumptions.
The information provided pursuant to this Item 7.01 is “furnished” and shall not be deemed to be “filed” with the Securities and Exchange Commission or incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in any such filing.
Forward-Looking
Statements
In this report we have made forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our estimates and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include the information concerning our possible or assumed future results of operations. Forward-looking statements also include those preceded or followed by the words "anticipates,""assumes,""believes,""estimates,""expects,""forecasts,""hopes,""intends,""plans,""targets" or similar expressions. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Given these risks and uncertainties, readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.