Compliance

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 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...

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) recognized $1.2 billion in monetary results and helped spark 101 criminal indictments in...

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A libel suit that recently received approval from a federal district court judge suggests that employers must proceed with caution when reporting workplace...

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that a medical plan fiduciary or administrator has to sue in federal court to...

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For purposes of determining contributions to defined benefit plans and permitted disparity in defined contribution plans for the 2009 plan year, the taxable...

December 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly chosen Mary Schapiro, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission.

December 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on Wednesday announced the availability of the 2008 Form M-1 annual report for...

December 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President George Bush will sign into law a bill suspending a requirement that seniors take a required minimum distribution (RMD) from retirement accounts...

December 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008, awaiting President Bush's signature, will require important decisions by trustees of defined benefit pension...