February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush continued to tout his new pension proposal over the weekend, as plan sponsors tried to figure out what it meant for...
February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform's champions have teamed up again - this time with a bill that purports to offer participants greater latitude in managing their...
February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension issues will loom large on the Hill this week as a focal point of several Enron-related Congressional hearings.
January 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the heavy job losses that have plagued the economy, US workers paychecks got 0.5% fatter in both November and December of 2001,...
December 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations on loans from qualified employer plans - opting to keep most of the substance of...
December 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington State Legislature has passed an update to the state's1988 Family Care Act allowing all employees to use sick leave, vacation time...
December 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Final rules from the Labor Department will make it easier for plan sponsors to know when to extend health coverage to children of...
November 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an issue of critical interest to plan sponsors, the US Supreme Court has decided to weigh in on whether an employee benefit...
October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A £130 million negligence case brought by Unilever's pension fund against Merrill Lynch's Mercury Asset Management has finally gone to trial in the...
October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to pump $264 million into its pension plan as part of an agreement with the federal pension insurer.
October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two of the most active pension reformers in Congress have unveiled their second piece of legislation that would in this case raise the...
October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the day a pension reform proposal was introduced in Congress to postpone required minimum distributions (RMD), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published...
October 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate vote on HR 2614 has been pushed back to Tuesday, October 31. HR 2614 is the tax bill containing the bipartisan...
October 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite threats of a Presidential veto, the House of Representatives Thursday passed HR 2614, a tax bill containing the bipartisan retirement savings package....
October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has offered some guidance for plan sponsors on the ?saver?s credit,? an income tax credit for lower-income individuals...
October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, on a party-line vote of 23 to 14, approved a $100 billion package of GOP-drafted tax...
October 15, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has declared October 27 ?assistance day? for Silicon Valley taxpayers who can't afford to pay the tax bills stemming from...
September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has given employers with underfunded pension plans some clarification in the proper way to communicate with participants.
September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another sign of the softening economy, the federal government's pension insurer has picked up responsibility for the underfunded pension plan of...