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PWBA Gets Raise, Name Change

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Major changes are in store for the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA), as President Bush has stated the fiscal year 2004 budget...
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House Bill to Kill IRA RMDs Reintroduced

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Republican Congressman has re-introduced a bill that would strike the current requirement that Americans start withdrawing money from their Individual Retirement Accounts...
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High Court To Hear FMLA Case

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case over family leave policies for state workers, seeking to resolve the...
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UAL Moves to Block CFO Deposition

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UAL Corp., parent of United Airlines, has asked the judge overseeing its bankruptcy case to block State Street Bank & Trust Co. from...
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PBGC Takes on National Refractories Plan

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for six pension plans covering nearly 1,100 employees of Livermore, California-based National Refractories &...
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UAL Moves to Block CFO Deposition

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UAL Corp., parent of United Airlines, has asked the judge overseeing its bankruptcy case to block State Street Bank & Trust Co. from...
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iCapital Fined for SOES Misuse

January 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged an investment company with securities fraud and violations of SEC rules on broker-dealer books and records...
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Ohio Workers' Pension Suit Barred by ERISA

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA blocks legal claims under state law by former employees who allege their former employer breached its fiduciary responsibility by not paying them...
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iCapital Fined for SOES Misuse

January 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged an investment company with securities fraud and violations of SEC rules on broker-dealer books and records...
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Sex Change Not Covered Under Health Plan

January 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Second Court of Appeals has found a plan administrator who denied a participant's claim for sex change surgery reimbursement, did so in...