Compliance

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's watchdog agency has decided to keep the federal private pension insurance single-employer program on its list of "high risk" items...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Final regulations regarding how certain distributions in defined contribution plans can be eliminated without coming into conflict with anti-cutback provisions have been issued...

January 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue has pulled back its 2004 policy notice regarding the state income tax status of income deferred under a...

January 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Supreme Court has dismissed a case alleging that the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) discriminated against a same-sex partner by denying...

January 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers who opt for the new retiree drug subsidy contained in recent Medicare reform legislation would get an average annual tax-free payment of...

January 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against a South Carolina company over allegations it didn't forward worker health plan contributions and caused...

January 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that state law, federal confidentiality law and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) do not prohibit...

January 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reversing a lower court's ruling, the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a long-term disability benefit plan participant who worked...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced that it will assume responsibility for the pensions of about 4,500 employees of outdoor power...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US bankruptcy court has found that the funds transferred from a bankrupt individual's individual retirement account (IRA) to the Internal Revenue Service...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are required starting February 1 to post a workplace injuries and illness summary, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are required starting February 1 to post a workplace injuries and illness summary, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) doesn't allow a union pension plan to force a New York actuary firm to return its...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit filed in US District Court in New Jersey is alleging that several employees of Local 734 of the Laborers' International Union...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Civil rights advocates are warning that a Denver federal judge's ruling that a blood bank was entitled to transfer an HIV-positive employee to...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against Chicago-based law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood over age discrimination - an...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said that medical expenses incurred in connection with a surrogate mother and an unborn child generally do...

January 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued guidelines on the income tax and self-employment tax consequences of partnership payments to partners' HSAs.

January 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush Administration on Monday released a long-awaited set of reforms to the defined benefit private-sector pension plan system including stepped up pension...

January 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the corporate bond weighted average interest rate and the interest rate on 30-year Treasuries, important for...