June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao has rolled out some new initiatives designed to help plan sponsors - particularly smaller employers - successfully...
June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations (TD 8954) that allow defined contribution and combined defined contribution/defined benefit retirement plans to...
May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The airline industry may be seeking legislation that will allow commercial airlines to put off making any catch-up contributions to their underfunded pension...
May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The new Portman-Cardin pension reform bill includes a provision that at least one critic says will allow employers with union workers to cut...
May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees whose companies use electronic debt cards or credit cards to reimburse them for substantiated medical expenses can still have the amounts excluded...
June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? You needed a scorecard to keep up with all the amendments, debates and votes in the Senate's continued deliberations on S. 1052, the...
June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Before the end of August the Internal Revenue Service says it will publish sample amendments that plan sponsors may adopt or copy to...
June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the government, fell by around 5% in fiscal year 2001,...
May 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania judges awarding child support should include an employee's 401(k) contributions and the employer's match when determining the person's income, an appeals court...
May 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of ex-Pan Am workers and retirees that has been battling the federal pension insurer over the size of its members' pension...
April 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has released the final version of new significantly simpler rules governing money that retirement savers are required to withdraw...
March 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The finances of the nation's pension insurance fund have never been stronger, according to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
March 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Representative Ben Cardin (D-Md.) made the case for pension reform Wednesday, focusing on the needs and benefits of small business before a House...
March 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Discharged employees of a bankrupt company's successor were not entitled to payment of incentive bonuses out of the former employer's bankruptcy proceeds, according...
March 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Minnesota company's policy of providing 26 weeks of income to disabled workers may constitute an ERISA regulated benefit plan, a federal judge...
March 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Congressional bill designed to create reemployment accounts of up to $3,000 to help jobless Americans find work passed another legislative hurdle with...
March 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversial tenure of Janet Rehnquist as inspector general at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is apparently drawing to...
May 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Notice 2003-20, describing changes to reporting and withholding requirements for Section 457(b) eligible deferred compensation plans.
February 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Republican lawmakers have unveiled Congressional proposals to allow non-salaried workers to choose paid time off instead of cash for overtime work as...
February 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The 3rd US Circuit Court has agreed to review a discrimination suit against DiamlerChrysler, after finding the plaintiff was not accurately notified of her...