Compliance

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US   Department of Labor (DoL) has issued an advisory opinion   asserting that cash incentives offered by a trustee/custodian   of...

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two weeks after United Airlines pilots agreed to an unusual pension funding deal with the troubled air carrier, the nation's private-sector pension insurer...

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has conformed its definition of incidental expense to federal travel regulations for 2005.

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Final rules regarding health insurance portability drafted by the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury were issued Thursday.

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a suit against Ohio's School Employees Retirement System (SERS)...

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling which dismissed a sex-discrimination suit against a Reno casino brought by a female...

December 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans has proposed requiring that pension programs filing financial and actuarial information do so in a standard...

December 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released guidance on the new automatic, or default, rollover rules for qualified retirement plans...

December 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers will have an easier time starting a K plan and keeping it qualified under comprehensive final regulations on the popular retirement savings...

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Indiana man who shot himself in the face in a suicide attempt after a drinking bout and a fight with his girlfriend...

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Wisconsin has given notification that many of the tax breaks offered by the federal government regarding health savings accounts (HSAs)...

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Texas woman has lost her bid to overturn a federal court's decision that her dead ex-husband's estate was entitled to life insurance...

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a former employee who sued her plan administrator over a breach of fiduciary duty does not...

December 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ruled that Halliburton cannot change retiree health benefits for a company it purchased in 1998 unless it wants to...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has sent letters to 1,700 businesses which are plan sponsors warning of new income and excise taxes on abusive...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have announced that they will no longer issue caveats for amendments that predate a plan's prior favorable determination...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a long legal battle, a pensioner is not entitled to attorney's fees from his fight to determine a correct date of inclusion...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ruled that Lincoln National Corp. and its affiliates did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In long-awaited specific guidance to the benefits and compensation community, federal officials declared Monday that non-qualified deferred compensation (NQDC) payments are taxable to...

December 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The US Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has released the 2004 Form M-1 annual report for multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs).