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April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Express now offers a debit card that allows holders to access their healthcare flexible spending accounts (FSA), so that they can track...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CitiStreet is partnering with Global Transaction Services, a business unit of Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking, to market and distribute the Citibank health...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislators in Texas proposed an amendment to a business tax bill that would penalize employers who hire illegal immigrants and pay them substandard...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Demand for hiring new college graduates looks better than it did five years ago, as more executives say they are doing more to...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will offer a new DTCC operations certification program for its customers that meets industry needs for...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has hiked some user fees including fees for letter rulings and determination letters for Employee Plans (EP) and...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The rate of growth in the nation's mutual fund assets picked up slightly in March with a 1.5% increase in assets, bringing the...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New Jersey has thrown out a civil rights and harassment lawsuit filed by a cross-dressing corrections officer in Atlantic...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canada's Supreme Court declined to hear a case from an Ontario Court of Appeal that removed the obligation of pension plan administrators to...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A compromise measure to reform the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) was approved by the Colorado Senate's State, Veterans, and Military Affairs...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard announced that the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund, offering traditional investor shares and exchange-traded shares, commenced trading Thursday morning on the American...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state court jury on Wednesday heard pleas from lawyers representing a woman who was spanked in front of her colleagues as...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A proposal moving through the Wisconsin state Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny chips embedded in them or...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proposed legislation by three US House of Representative members would give federal employees six weeks of paid leave for the birth of a...

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey Transit will begin offering 401(k) plans to some new employees beginning July 1.

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts House voted overwhelmingly to override Governor Mitt Romney's eight vetoes of the state's new aggressive health care law.

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alaska House today voted 24-to-16 to delay implementing the new retirement plan for state employees, teachers and other government workers for one...

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest examination of the US workplace benefits landscape found that 99% of all employers offer some kind of retirement savings program.

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A global survey from HSBC Holdings reveals that, in contrast to tradition, people around the world want self-sufficiency and a mix of work...

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Depression lengthens the time it takes for people to recover from disabilities in some cases, according to the findings of a new survey.