Benefits

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Volunteer fire companies in the Town of Clarence, New York, violated federal law by preventing older firefighters from accruing service credits because of...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. has released the actual bill language of seven separate pension reform measures, and announced five other specific...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An average 22% of eligibles participated in state and local government plans during 2010, down from 29% a year before, according to a...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Financial Literacy Center working paper suggests that overall, one in ten plan loans results in a default, and eight of ten workers...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument on June 8 for the...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Archdiocese of Boston chancellor David W. Smith disclosed that he has asked Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Secretary of State William...

April 1, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two DeKalb County educators have filed a lawsuit against the school district and board for failing to make contributions over the last two...

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New findings by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) suggest that lower-income workers are far more likely to say they would reduce their...

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Twenty-eight percent of employers have hired full-time permanent workers in Q111, the highest such reading in three years.

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Bank of America won the dismissal of a bias lawsuit by black financial advisers at the former Merrill Lynch who claimed they received...

March 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The annual Fidelity Investments estimate of the retirement health-care costs for a 65-year-old couple fell back 8% to $230,000, driven by Medicare changes...

March 30, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has released the first annual report of self-insured health benefit plans and financial information on their employer...

March 30, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is co-sponsoring a Webcast on April 12 to help women with retirement planning issues.

March 30, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The HR Policy Association has drafted a letter to state governors regarding the potential impact of health insurance exchanges on the ability of...

March 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Companies across the United States are initiating and adopting workplace wellness programs at a higher rate than ever before, according to a new...

March 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While the recent recession hurt public pensions, they do not face an immediate liquidity crisis, according to a recent report from the Center...

March 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – After Senate approval, a bill requiring all active North Carolina state workers to pay monthly health care premiums for their own care for...

March 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TIAA-CREF announced the appointment of Gene Flood as Executive Vice President of Diversified Financial Services, a new division to include the company’s endowment,...

March 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many human resources (HR) managers interviewed in a new OfficeTeam survey think a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.

March 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health systems are responding to the Affordable Care Act by consolidating operations, enhancing wellness programs, and addressing benefit administration and other issues, according...