Compliance

July 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced a moratorium, until the end of 2014, on the enforcement of 4062(e) cases.

July 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations requiring more oversight for 403(b) plans make it harder for those plan sponsors that want to maintain non-ERISA...

July 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Changes to rules for employer-sponsored retirement plans are established with regularity, and sometimes it is hard to determine what regulators have in mind...

July 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that regulators consider modifying Form 5500 plan investment and service provider fee information.

July 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A group health plan will repay clients for failing to disclose fees to them.

July 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 403(b) plan documents currently may be presented in a myriad of forms, but pre-approved prototype plans are coming, which will provide some uniformity,...

July 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In Washington State, same-sex domestic partnerships were automatically converted to marriages as of June 30.

July 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued final rules regarding longevity annuities—aimed at bringing more flexibility to retirement savers using the fixed-income vehicles...

June 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While single-employer retirement plans are likely to improve over the next decade, the same cannot be said for multiemployer plans, the Pension Benefit...

June 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will host a free phone forum about 403(b) retirement plans.

June 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has opened registration to webinars about its recent exposure draft, “Fair Value Measurement and Application.”

June 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciaries are not entitled to a presumption of prudence for keeping...

June 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has decided fiduciaries of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are not entitled to any special presumption of prudence under...

June 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) has published new instructions that allow the agency to process more claims in which entitlement or eligibility is...

June 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) is looking at expanding the protections of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to cover eligible employees...

June 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – TL Ventures Inc. has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a case involving pay-to-play rules for investment advisers.

June 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor’s (DOL) ERISA Advisory Council is examining practices for outsourcing employee benefit plan services.

June 19, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A firm that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accused of revoking job offers after learning the candidates’ ages will pay to settle...

June 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Just one type of fiduciary liability protection is required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), but it’s not nearly enough, says...

June 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Ways and Means Committee members introduced legislation designed to spur more employee-ownership in private industry.