The phrase "a type of plan" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when categorizing or describing a specific kind of plan within a broader context.
Example: "The project requires a type of plan that outlines both the timeline and the budget."
Alternatives: "a kind of strategy" or "a category of scheme".
The dispute centered on Xerox's cash-balance pension plan, a type of plan that became controversial in the late 1990's.
PAGE A15 Pension Change Proposed The White House has proposed pension rules that will encourage companies to adopt a type of plan that critics say can strip benefits from older employees.
But it could add weight to employees' complaints that companies and their actuaries have been able to exploit gray areas in pension accounting rules to reap financial benefits by converting to a type of plan that can hurt older workers.
The Obama administration's controversial birth control health insurance coverage rule will not apply to a type of plan used by about 200,000 college and graduate students, officials said Friday.
He warned of a type of planning where "you link one type of arm to another type of leg and hope it can walk".
There will be another round of consultation later in 2017 on Highways England's more detailed proposed solution before it submits its development consent order application – a type of planning application needed for nationally significant infrastructure projects – in 2018.
Rather, we try to visualise, at a more conceptual level, energy demand as dependent on principle transport strategies, future technological developments and a type of planning that takes technological interlinkages between evolving components into strategic account.
Those projects require a type of planning approval that would be barred under Measure S for at least two years and possibly up to a decade, he said.
The proposed remedy, by Hartford and BuySafe, a start-up based in Alexandria, Va., is a type of insurance plan, to be paid for by participating sellers.
What has happened at U.S. Sugar could happen at many other companies because of a type of retirement plan that proliferated in the 1980s, after powerful members of Congress took an interest in "worker ownership" as a way to improve productivity.
The Bush administration has proposed sweeping new pension rules that will encourage companies to adopt a type of retirement plan that has been under attack for three years for what critics call a tendency to strip benefits from older employees.
