Compliance

October 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Labor Department's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration is offering American workers information that could help them protect their benefits during layoffs and...

October 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Medical savings accounts will continue to be available through 2002, since the number of MSA returns filed is far short of the target...

October 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the first day of its new session, the Supreme Court denied review of a number of employee benefit-related cases.

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? President Bush and Representative Charles Norwood (R-Georgia) say they have reached agreement on the approach for the passage of a patients' bill of...

May 10, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard&Poor's expects to hear soon whether the Department of Labor grants it a Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) for its retirement investment advice software.

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Broader access to participant investment advice took another step forward Thursday, as the Employer-Employee Relations (EER) Subcommittee approved the Retirement Security Advice Act...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Senate got to go home for the Fourth of July recess, having passed the amended McCain-Kennedy-Edwards patients' bill of rights by a...

July 14, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee has approved the Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act. The bill, which now goes to the...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has outlined changes to the determination letter process that will allow the agency to better handle the influx...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Even as the US Senate approved a patients' bill of rights, the US Supreme Court said it plans to decide whether states may provide...

June 14, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm Sprenger & Lang announced Wednesday that James Mehling, a former Vice President of New York Life Insurance Company, filed a...

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attention will be focused on the outcome of the vote in the House of Representatives on the Portman-Cardin legislation today.

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush will officially announce his commission to craft a plan to fix Social Security today - but some Democrats have already criticized...

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Portman-Cardin proposed legislation sailed through the House of Representatives by a bipartisan vote of 407 to 24.

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform picked up where it left off last year, with overwhelming support in the House of Representatives, despite vigorous debate on the...

April 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case regarding cash balance plans, leaving in place a verdict that could mean unexpected...

April 14, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increasing demand for highly skilled workers is driving efforts by Congress to keep older Americans at work. With February unemployment figures hovering at...

February 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California State Controller Kathleen Connell has filed suit against the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), charging the pension system with violating state...

February 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission has published a final rule requiring investment firms to invest at least 80% of its assets in the...

December 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration has published the Year 2000 Form M-1 annual report for multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs).