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August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tom's Foods, currently in bankruptcy court, has filed an application with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to stop benefit accruals for its pension...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court have ruled that a lawsuit by four retirees over the Teacher and Employee Retention Incentive (TERI)...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has disagreed with a lower court decision that an ERISA case be dismissed because...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued new guidance on how it would handle consideration of remedial amendments for individually-designed and pre-approved qualified...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has slapped a Puerto Rican company with a $2,500 fine for delaying its response to an employee's inquiry about the...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) offers no legal remedy to...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the IRS have issued final regulations completing a two year project to stop abusive transactions involving section 412(i) plans...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled for an employee who claims she was retaliated against by her employer after she...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar, Inc. is adding a Defined Contribution Plans module to its Principia software system.

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar, Inc. is adding a Defined Contribution Plans module to its Principia software system.

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS and US Treasury have issued proposed regulations regarding comparability rules for employer contributions to employees' Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - North Carolina has adopted a new workers' compensation law that eases employers' ability to access employees' private medical records.

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed regulations to clarify several issues involving deductions for dividends on employer securities held in employee stock...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared the former owner of a company that made television commercials for advertising agencies of wrongdoing for not providing...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-On August 1, 2005, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) introduced lifecycle (L) funds to its 3.4 million participants, and the funds have already exceeded...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 38% of GenXers (age 26 to 40) believe that educational costs will be out of their financial reach by the time their...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its National Compensation Survey on Employee Benefits in Private Industry in the US as of March 2005, the DoL's Bureau of Labor...

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Oklahoma federal judge has certified as a class action a lawsuit filed by current and former K plan participants from Williams Cos....

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled with a company which has a policy directing employees not to "…fraternize on or off...

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Using equity-based compensation as a long-term incentive program (LTI) is very much not just an American phenomenon, according to a new survey.