Compliance

November 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A unit of the U.S. Labor Department says it obtained 16 indictments and five convictions of union officers and employees that have embezzled...

November 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued a new statement that requires endowments to report their real estate investments at fair value.

November 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The nation's high court has agreed to hear a case involving a California law that bars employers from using state funds to keep...

November 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced a proposed amendment to an existing class exemption that would expand...

November 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued Revenue Ruling 2007-71 providing the table of covered compensation for the 2008 year for use in determining...

Here's an interesting case study from our friends at Reish Luftman Reicher & Cohen: "Recently, a 401(k) plan trustee requested our advice regarding a failure of the plan...

November 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's Pensions Regulator has issued a supplementary e-learning module, published as an additional learning tool to help trustees understand the "winding up"...

November 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor announced a settlement requiring Union Labor Life Insurance Co. (ULLICO) of Washington, D.C., to pay back nearly $16.7...

November 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The federal workplace safety agency has issued a final rule mandating that personal protective equipment (PPE) workers are required to have must be...

November 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Kentucky has ruled that cash balance plan participants who sued more than five years after receiving lump sum distributions...

November 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To aid plan sponsors in satisfying the requirements of the IRS's proposed regulations for qualified automatic contribution arrangements (QACAs) and eligible automatic contribution...

November 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) announced the...

November 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two former Quaker Oats Co. employees fighting to receive additional pension benefits they say were promised them by Quaker have lost a second...

November 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) insurance program for single-employer pension plans reported a deficit of $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2007, according...

November 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued out a reminder to low- and moderate-income workers that they may be eligible for a "saver's...

November 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has thrown out a lower court ruling dismissing a sexual harassment case by a male university official against his...

November 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the Final Regulations on Qualified Default Investment Alternatives (QDIAs) under Participant Directed Individual Account Plans answered many questions posed by commenters after...

November 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives would extend to 90 days from the current 60 the advance warning of...

November 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared the way for a legal battle between a defined benefit plan sponsor and its former investment manager over...

November 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina state appellate court has sent back for additional hearings a dispute over whether an has to include retirement plan contributions...