Compliance

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Week one of the Enron hearings provided few insights - but a fair amount of finger-pointing - about the activities and events of...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of former Enron employees have banded together to form the Severed Enron Employees Coalition (SEEC). The coalition has filed a class...

January 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have proposed allowing Northwest Airlines to contribute stock of a regional affiliate airline to its pension plans instead of cash.

January 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) plan to issue a joint report early next month...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is giving plan sponsors impacted by the September 11 attacks more time to make required contributions.

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA), the Internal Revenue Service and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation have released...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Simply because a General Mills forklift operator claims he is unable to work beyond an eight-hour shift doesn't make him eligible for workplace...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Thursday is an important day for some retirees: the date by which they must take the first required minimum distribution (RMD) from their 401(k), IRA,...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent judgment against the former president of SAI Plus.

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As federal lawmakers continue wrangling about a replacement interest rate to use in calculating pension benefits, the federal private pension insurer has given...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Wednesday that it was extending the remedial amendment period for fixing certain disqualifying plan provisions.

March 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companion proposals in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives to create tax-advantaged Lifetime Savings Accounts (LSA) for all Americans have...

March 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said health insurance companies have been withholding information from patients about which procedures they consider medically...

March 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers offering a Health Savings Account (HSA) tied to a high deductible health plan (HDHP) got a bit of guidance on Tuesday dealing...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DOL) hasn't revealed much about the content of its soon-to-be released final rules on overtime pay, but the final...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A number of legislators - including pension champions Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), and Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota) - have penned a...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Data pertaining to the dollar amounts paid by health insurers does not fall under the "plan assets" umbrella and is not prevented by...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a case to determine if older employees have rights similar to those...

March 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a settlement in a discrimination suit against Sega of America, Inc and Spherion Corporation.

March 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Taxpayer attempts to avoid federal ordinary income tax or alternative minimum tax (AMT) after exercising stock options could be treated as frivolous and...