A 2025 Ford Lightning electric vehicle (EV) at a Ford dealership on Thursday, December 18, 2025, in Antioch, California.
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Detroit — ford motor The company announced that it will report in its fourth quarter results a pre-tax charge of $600 million related to adjustments to employee pension plans and other post-retirement benefits.
The Detroit automaker said special charges that affect net income but not adjusted results or cash will be split between domestic and non-U.S. plans.
“The U.S. plan remeasurement loss was primarily driven by actuarial losses compared to plan assumptions,” Ford said in a public filing Thursday after market close. “Remeasurement losses for non-U.S. plans were primarily driven by changes in key plan measurement assumptions, such as improvements in life expectancy.”
On an after-tax basis, Ford said the remeasurement loss is expected to reduce net income by approximately $500 million, based on the tax effect in the jurisdiction in which the remeasurement gain or loss occurs.
Ford said its retirement plan remains fully funded and the charge does not change its projected pension contributions for 2026.
The new special charges are in addition to about $19.5 billion in special items related to realigning business priorities and scaling back investments in all-electric vehicles that the company disclosed last month, most of which Ford said will occur during the fourth quarter.
Automakers typically exclude “special items,” or one-time charges, from their adjusted financial results to give investors a clearer picture of their core ongoing business operations.
Ford is scheduled to announce its fourth quarter results after the market closes on February 10th.
