Compliance

February 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has found a retirement plan participant need not show “harm” to pursue a remedy of plan reformation for failing...

February 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Final regulations implementing the employer responsibility provisions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provide some relief for employers, but require...

February 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Final regulations concerning a 90-day limit on waiting periods for health coverage have been issued from several federal agencies.

February 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams.

February 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) requests the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) extend approval of information collection of annual Form 5500...

February 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) has received a consent judgment and order allowing it to name a new fiduciary to distribute the assets...

February 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Good news: your employees are contributing to the 401(k) plan. Bad news: your highly compensated employees are contributing more than others to the...

February 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Puerto Rico Treasury Department has issued guidance on retirement plan deferral limits for 2014.

February 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two Department of Labor (DOL) lawsuits have resulted in plan trustees of an Aurora, Illinois, business being ordered to restore over $4 million...

February 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will host a phone forum next month on the 2013 Cumulative List.

February 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations implementing the employer responsibility provisions under the Patient...

February 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More defined contribution retirement plans are out of compliance with Department of Labor (DOL) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations than some might...

February 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) announced enforcement efforts against two retirement plan sponsors that failed to timely remit employee contributions.

February 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it will pay retirement benefits for a plastic container manufacturer based in Trevose, Pennsylvania.

February 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) has recovered plan assets for a Kentucky-based pension plan, as well as obtaining judgments against the plan fiduciaries.

February 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A brief of amici curiae was recently filed with the U.S. Supreme Court for a case addressing prudent investment decisionmaking within employee stock...

February 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a lawsuit against a Lilburn, Georgia contracting firm, on behalf of the firm’s retirement plan participants,...

February 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has decided an argument which could have possibly exempted employers in certain states from federally mandated employee health insurance coverage.

January 31, 2014 (PLANSPOSOR.com) – For the third time in its history, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is using its authority to partition an insolvent employer’s participants...

January 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) published an implementation guide for its new standards regarding accounting and financial reporting for pensions.