Compliance

December 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. Congressman has proposed a unique way to spend the remaining $350 billion of that $700 billion bailout.

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest bulletin from the Internal Revenue Service, IR-2008-134, reminds low- and moderate-income workers they still have time to take steps to get...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A deceased life insurance plan participant's designation of her daughter as a beneficiary was valid and the daughter is entitled to the policy's...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has let stand an arbitrator's decision under the Halliburton Dispute Resolution Plan, finding...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has determined an employee who claimed a coworker's perfume aggravated a lifelong medical...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused a Bismarck, North Dakota, manufacturer of wastewater treatment systems and equipment and its owners of...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Republican U.S. Senator has added her voice to the chorus of those calling for changes in the rules governing required minimum distributions...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota) again questioned the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's stance on easing the funding requirements for pension plans in a...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has ruled that lawyers for a participant challenging his employer's cash balance plan deserve fees, but cut the...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S.   Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security   Administration (EBSA) has released Field Assistance Bulletin   (FAB) 2008-04, which provides guidance...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. on Tuesday released...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Tuesday released the 2008 Cumulative List of Changes in Plan Qualification Requirements to be used primarily by...

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2009 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal   judge in Missouri handed retail giant Wal-Mart Stores a   resounding legal victory by swatting away a participant's   excessive...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling by a lower court that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate adjourned for its Thanksgiving break this week without taking up a new pension aid proposal put forward by four Senators...

November 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators on Wednesday unveiled a legislative package designed to help ease the financial strain on families and businesses due to the lagging...

November 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky accuses BP Corporation of reducing participants' accrued benefits when...

November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday voted unanimously to improve mutual fund disclosure by requiring that funds provide investors with a...

November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Wisconsin gave cash balance plan participants at S.C. Johnson & Sons Inc. only a limited victory by throwing out...