Benefits

October 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced that the maximum annual insurance benefit for participants in underfunded pension plans terminating next year will...

October 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Newly released findings from MetLife’s 8th Annual Employee Benefits Trends Study show members of the working sandwich generation — those who are holding...

October 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has introduced a reform plan for pensions and other benefits for new police officers and firefighters which he...

October 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Younger boomers still have time to recover from the 2008 economic downturn, but worry more about control and stability in retirement than older...

October 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fifty-two percent of those in a recent Sun Life Financial poll expect to work at least three years longer than planned, with as...

October 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent Monster poll has found that 41% of workers worldwide will not receive a pay raise this year.

October 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has accused Walmart of firing a longtime employee because of a cancer-related disability and in retaliation...

October 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A former compensation analyst for the Asheville, North Carolina, Human Resources Department has pleaded guilty to receiving $19,052 in fraudulent flexible spending account...

October 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Mercer survey found that about half (49%) of responding tax-exempt organizations offer top executives an employer-paid nonqualified retirement plan.

October 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) research report suggests the recent COBRA subsidies designed to help laid-off workers keep health coverage ended...

October 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Journal Communications, a Milwaukee-based media company, is freezing its defined benefit plan and boosting its 401(k) match, effective January 1, 2011.

October 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – As widely anticipated, the Social Security Administration has announced that there will be no Social Security cost of living adjustment...