Tag: Department of Labor (DOL)

Each week, Carol Buckmann, with Cohen & Buckmann P.C., will explain legislative provisions or official guidance related to the COVID-19...

The leadership at the regulator says this measure will reduce printing, mailing and related plan costs by an estimated $3.2...

The agreement requires Wilmington Trust to pay $80 million to 21 employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for which it served...

Relief is provided for verification requirements for loans and distributions and timing for forwarding contributions and loan repayments, among other...

Extended time limits disregard the period from March 1 until 60 days after the announced end of the national emergency...

Perhaps his most significant contribution was the role Preston Rutledge played in undoing the Obama-era DOL fiduciary rule expansion.

The Department of Labor found WH Administrators failed to provide proper plan funding and pay medical claims, as well as...

A court judgment requires the fiduciaries to not only restore the unremitted repayments to the plan, but also $16,782.80 in...

The DOL alleges that the company’s president influenced an appraiser’s valuation and the ESOP’s trustee didn’t do his due diligence...

Each database contains, or links to, all the agency’s guidance documents and provides certain information about them.

Contents of the DOL’s Getting It Right – Know Your Fiduciary Responsibilities seminar will be presented via three different webcast...

The trustee embezzled approximately $186,123.93 from the plan, as well as knowingly and willingly failed to file a required annual...

A schedule to help plan sponsors track important due dates for their plan

Failure to find missing participants could disqualify a retirement plan under the tax code and lead to breaches of the...

The Democratic presidential candidate fears the DOL is considering a fiduciary rule that would permit advisers providing advice on retirement...

The DOL says the action would modernize fiduciary practices related to the voting rights associated with ERISA plan investments.

While the DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration is diligent in protecting employees’ benefits, plan sponsors can also turn to it...

While the retirement plan industry has reacted positively to a DOL proposal to make default e-delivery of plan documents the...

A mental health services provider, with its tax-exempt status revoked, was sued by the DOL for failing to remit employee...