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January 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) achieved $1.7 billion in results from actions to enforce the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) during...

January 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch Investment Management (MLIM) has announced that it will change the name of its US mutual funds in an effort to boost...

January 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of US mutual funds increased 1.6% to $8.9 trillion in December, according to data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

January 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a memorandum that costs for gender reassignment surgery and related medications, treatment, and transportation may not be...

January 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan judge has approved a prosecutor's request that a former township clerk convicted of embezzling $62,000 be required to give up any...

January 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has updated its e-4010 Web-based application for reporting financial, actuarial and other identifying information in compliance with...

January 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Labor Department (DoL) said more than 100 workers helping to clean debris from a US Navy facility in Mississippi will get...

January 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent poll shows a gap between how employees' performance is recognized and how they want it to be recognized.

January 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - InfoLink Screening Service has released a report of the percentages of negative findings on applicant background checks in 2005 broken down by screening...

January 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's mutual funds grew by $22.9 billion in December 2005, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

January 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Customers, clients, and patients are most often the wrongdoers when it comes to committing violent acts on the nearly half of US workers...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate executives are not sufficiently focused on a potential worker shortage caused by Boomer retirements - possibly because they underestimate its impact.

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state appellate court has ruled that a Golden State employer may discharge, or force the retirement of, an employee who was...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Michigan plans to open a new 401(k) retirement savings program for employees of small companies that do not offer a...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania property and casualty insurer has become the latest in a growing line of companies freezing their defined benefit program in favor...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have proposed new rules to clarify how distributions from Roth 401(k) and 403(b) plans are to be taxed.

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurance broker accused of issuing fake policies to 29 workplace plans and stealing clients' health insurance payments exercised control over the disposition...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has overturned a lower court decision and ruled that Dow Chemical Co. cannot take tax deductions for interest it...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although US firms disclose many details about their inner workings to the public, most are virtually mum in their annual report about how...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey of workers and hiring managers found that the number of employees faking an illness to get a sick day rose...