Compliance

February 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Those retirees lucky enough to have employer-sponsored health coverage have, in a growing number of cases, seen that benefit come under attack by...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wisconsin state legislator is trying again with his proposal to shelter the first $5,000 of pension fund earnings, but not assets from...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-- The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) "is not in crisis" according to the Bush Administration's fiscal 2005 budget.

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As widely expected, the Bush Administration's FY 2005 budget reintroduced a provision to consolidate a variety of workplace retirement plans into a single...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a fierce struggle to block the Bush Administration from proposing rules allowing companies to convert from a cash balance plan to a...

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vermont Supreme Court found a former wife is entitled to a percentage of her husband's pension at the same time he is...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance to plan sponsors for charging a former employee's account for plan expenses, without necessarily charging...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance to plan sponsors on how to request a waiver of minimum funding standards of Internal...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plans that separately account for rollover contributions do not have to treat distributions of those amounts to the restrictions on permissible timing.

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors that are having difficulty determining if their retirement plans are subjected to the top-heavy rules of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the C-suite wants to know how certain acquisitions or dispositions are going to affect nondiscriminatory contributions, plan sponsors now have a resource...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) claim without proof of lost wages, on its face must be dismissed.

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate's approval of Pension Stability Act with modifications to the deficit rate contribution (DRC) provisions also contains language to alert...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's plans allowing younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in the stock market has an AARP leader...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer announced Thursday that it was re-jiggling its investment portfolio to a greater fixed-income position to better manage its...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has announced plans to assume responsibility for the pensions of 6,300 workers and retirees of bankrupt JA Jones...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate has approved the Pension Stability Act, providing a temporary fix to the pension liability calculation dilemma.

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments, through its benefits consulting arm, is now pushing the idea of a 401(k)-like account from which to pay health-care expenses

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning next week, employers will need to post a new notice about workplace injuries.

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Friday the Treasury Department and the IRS issued a ruling to shut down what the agencies described as "abusive transactions involving S...