Compliance

December 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has released the Pension Insurance Data Book 2007, which offers information on statistical trends related to defined...

December 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published a final rule that affects health care providers, and has stirred up...

December 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court of appeals returned a case to the jury to determine whether an employee should have accepted a reduced position during a...

December 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced it will publish a final rule that implements changes under the Pension Protection Act of...

December 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has accused the Eaton's Neck, New York, Fire District of discriminating against employees age 65 and...

December 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have issued temporary regulations allowing certain employers to file one return annually to report...

December 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that First Unum Life Insurance Company abused its discretion in denying long-term disability benefits...

December 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among the handful of bills signed into law by President Bush on Tuesday was a measure that conforms the effective date of certain...

December 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Refusing to give up the battle over granting the same relief from required minimum distribution (RMD) rules in 2008 that has been granted...

December 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has denied a motion to dismiss a case brought by participants of Ford...

December 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has set forth a special rule under which a Section 529 program may permit investments in a section...

December 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has changed the standard of review it applied to a benefits denial case because of a recent closely watched...

December 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In line with its responsibility under the Pension Protection Act (PPA), the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has provided 2009 data for the...

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed into law a broad pension relief bill that includes a one-year moratorium on required minimum distribution...

December 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees hoping for the gift of some government intervention on the calculation of requirement minimum distributions just got some coal in their stockings...

December 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) announced a revised Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) poster, reflecting the recently published final rule, is now...

December 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a Technical Advice Memorandum, the Internal Revenue Service addressed the timing of an employer's tax deduction for self-insured medical plan payments to...

December 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has assumed responsibility for the pension plan that covers about 1,860 former employees of Pascack...

December 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has cleared a Buffalo benefits TPA of wrongdoing in a denial of benefits dispute involving a participant's...

December 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has fired a PR shot at Secretary of Labor nominee Representative Hilda Solis for her support...