Compliance

October 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) used an Ohio speech to call for rules governing distributions from retirement savings accounts to...

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury announced an extension of the date by which a governmental plan must comply with final regulations...

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees feeling hemmed in by minimum distribution requirements got some support from the two leading presidential candidates.

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut became the third state to legalize same-sex marriage with a state Supreme Court ruling that gay couples have the constitutional right to...

October 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition for review by Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) of a ruling upholding a $100,000 punitive damages...

October 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U. S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has scheduled an October 21 public hearing on its proposed regulation for...

October 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the now-defunct People Unlimited Consulting Inc. and two executives of the Charlotte, North Carolina, employee staffing...

October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While participants (and plan sponsors) nervously contemplated the impact of the market tumult on their retirement savings, Congress held a hearing on the...

October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to hear the case of two former Quaker Oats Co. employees fighting to receive additional...

October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Supreme Court justices have turned aside a request to rule whether cash balance plans are age biased as the high court refused...

October 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has announced final rules under the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) relating to distribution of 401(k)...

October 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill approved by the U.S. Senate would reform the way retirement benefits for federal employees based in Hawaii, Alaska, and U.S. territories...

October 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it is developing plan approval programs for 403(b) plans similar to the current programs offered for 401(a)...

October 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has granted class action certification to plaintiffs suing International Paper Co. for fiduciary...

October 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Compromise mental health parity legislation (H.R. 1424) has been joined with a Wall Street financial aid package that passed the U.S. Senate this...

October 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New Jersey has declared a participant lawsuit against Schering-Plough Corp., over employee company stock investments, can be pursued as...

October 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The owner of a Columbus, Ohio, company has pleaded guilty to not filing financial reports for the company's 401(k) plan as required by...

October 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately four hundred U.S. colleges and universities will begin receiving compliance questionnaires from the Internal Revenue Service in the next few days.

October 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has sanctioned an excessive 401(k) fee lawsuit against Boeing Co. as a class action.

October 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) on Wednesday released a final rule financial reporting for union members about finances...