Compliance

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Vermont disclosure requirement couldn’t be imposed on a self-funded ERISA plan.

This leaves in place a New Jersey Supreme Court decision that contributions agreed upon in 2011 pension reform are not enforceable.

The IRS has issued an alert about a phishing scheme involving W-2s.

An ERISA attorney feels the Supreme Court vacancy will not be filled before the end of President Obama's term, but also says it shouldn't have a big effect...

Once “strongly encouraging” plan sponsors to answer the new questions, the IRS is now telling them to skip them.

The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration has asked plan sponsors and their service provider partners for help on a major upcoming research project. 

The central issue in the case was whether several collective bargaining agreements entitled a class of retirees from Moen Inc. to vested healthcare benefits for life. 

The DOL has begun investigations, attorneys tell PLANSPONSOR.

A district court agreed that a prudent fiduciary would have made the same decision to remove Nabisco stock from the RJR 401(k) plan.

The lawsuit filed by Jerome J. Schlichter of Schlichter Bogard & Denton against Chevron Corporation also accuses the firm of not using its negotiating power to obtain lower...

A DOL investigation found two officers of Alliance Home Healthcare transferred and distributed more than $1.6 million from the company’s profit sharing plan to themselves, the company, and...

President Obama says the proposed cap on tax-deferred savings distributes the cost of government more fairly among taxpayers of various income levels, while still providing substantial tax incentives...

A court found there was plausible evidence that Dave & Buster’s intended to interfere with employees’ rights to benefits.

The lawsuit is filed as a class action on behalf of the Arthur J. Gallagher & Company 401(k) plan and all other similarly situated plans.

The IRS proposal would provide guidance about any employer that has withdrawn from the plan and entered into a “make-whole” agreement to provide participant benefits.

A federal judge found the agreement does dictate important aspects about the participant’s benefits under the 401(k) plan.

While initiatives to expand retirement access get support, the DOL’s conflict of interest rule and the ACA’s Cadillac tax do not.

The newly emerged text of President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed funding over the next decade to encourage wider use of...

Many employees now plan to work later to be retirement ready, but lawsuits filed by the EEOC indicate that may be hard for some due to bias.

Not all plan designs fit into prototype plan documents, so how will the IRS’ elimination of the determination letter affect them?