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January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest U.S. Treasury Department treatise on Social Security reform suggests increasing both the early and normal retirement ages would help encourage more...

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House of Representatives has passed two bills pertaining to pay discrimination that opponents say would increase costs and expose companies to...

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Justice (DoJ) has delayed the effective date for regulations that would require federal contractors and subcontractors to use the U.S....

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Consulting Worldwide has named Joe Clouse as senior vice president and Northeast regional leader of business development, the firm announced.

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, says Congressional negotiators have "pretty much agreed" to include in their latest economic...

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OppenheimerFunds announced that Art Steinmetz has been named Director of Fixed Income, effective immediately.

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Notice 2009-09 which modifies the reporting requirements applicable to required minimum distributions (RMDs) from individual retirement...

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled an employee need not present evidence that similarly situated employees received preferential treatment to...

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has ruled that the federal government can garnish benefits of Louisiana Sheriff's Pension...

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer bound by a court-approved lawsuit settlement to provide lifetime retiree health benefits could potentially have breached its fiduciary duties by not...

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time in the 26-year-history of the Wisconsin Retirement System, pension checks drawn on the Core Fund will fall by at...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In Notice 2009-8, the Internal Revenue Service has published guidance on the application of § 457A to nonqualified deferred compensation plans of nonqualified...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the latest capital market update from Towers Perrin the funded ratio for Towers Perrin's benchmark pension plan showed a 6.9 percentage point...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Retirement Services division at American United Life Insurance Company (AUL), a OneAmerica company, has announced the appointment of James R. Daniel, Jr....

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm of Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC is investigating conduct which it believes may have caused losses to the KV...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In contrast to most recent news reports regarding employer matching contributions, Louisville-based Republic Bank has increased its 401(k) match and is vesting its...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More workers are rolling over retirement assets when they change jobs than in past years, according to a study by the nonpartisan Employee...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Drawing a distinction between legal claims to recover pension benefits and those to collect money damages from a pension dispute, a federal judge...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As investors and regulators sort through the assets affected by a $50-billion Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff, the list of pension...