Compliance | December 11th, 2023 2024 ERISA Plan Compliance Calendar A schedule to help plan sponsors track important due dates for their plans.
Compliance | November 20th, 2023 DOL Releases 2023 Form 5500 Updates Schedules DCG and H, among others, will be modified for disclosures filed next year.
Compliance | November 20th, 2023 PBGC Nearly $50B in the Green, Report Says This could be a reason to lower premiums, though insurance conditions have been volatile before.
Compliance | November 9th, 2023 PBGC Publishes New Mortality Tables for 2024 The 4044/4050 tables are used to calculate withdrawal liability and missing participant program transfer amounts.
Compliance | November 3rd, 2023 Bakery Drivers Plan Loses Case in $132M SFA Application The plan applied for special financial assistance but was denied because the pension fund had previously been terminated.
Compliance | October 27th, 2023 Transportation Pension Granted $49.3M by PBGC The plan of 3,887 participants will remain solvent through 2051.
Compliance | October 23rd, 2023 SFA Recipients Are Not Investing in Return-Seeking Assets, Expert Says The bucket recipients can use for stock investments is not being filled due to the attractiveness of investment-grade assets.
Compliance | October 18th, 2023 PBGC Announces 2024 Premiums, Guarantee Levels Guarantee levels for single-employer plans will rise with inflation, but multiemployer plans are not indexed.
Data and Research | October 4th, 2023 Market Conditions Continue to Fuel Pension Risk Transfers The majority of plan sponsors with the goal of mitigating pension plan risks are looking to fully divest their company’s...
Benefits | September 28th, 2023 Social Security Administration Cannot Calculate 2024 COLA if Government Shuts Down The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which would shut down completely, produces the data necessary to update the COLA.
Administration | September 26th, 2023 PBGC Announces Address Change for Overnight Delivery of Paper Checks The change for paper premium payment checks is effective October 6.
Benefits | September 22nd, 2023 SFA Grant Rescues Printer’s Pension Fund The NYC-based plan will receive about $20 million to restore its solvency through 2051.
Compliance | September 14th, 2023 PBGC Grants $3.2M to Pennsylvania Construction Pension Fund The Plasterers and Cement Masons Local No. 94 Pension Fund will see a full restoration of cut benefits.
Compliance | September 8th, 2023 PBGC Grants $334 Million to Transportation Pension The pension would have had to cut benefits by 75% upon becoming insolvent.
Compliance | August 30th, 2023 PBGC Grants Four Struggling Pensions Close to $500 Million in Assistance One plan had been insolvent since 2009, and the grant will include back payments.
Compliance | August 18th, 2023 Pension Fund With Very Few Active Participants Granted $36.3M in SFA Funds The fund had a receiving-to-active participant ratio of nearly 50-to-1 as of 2021.
Compliance | August 17th, 2023 PBGC Looks to Modernize Actuarial Assumptions The proposal would change mortality tables and interest rate calculations.
Compliance | August 16th, 2023 Struggling Ohio Carpenter’s Pension Receives PBGC Aid $182.6 million in SFA money will be distributed to the plan to ensure its solvency to 2051.
Compliance | August 8th, 2023 Some 4010 Pension Filers May Qualify for Reporting Waiver Due to unusual market conditions, many 4010 filers will struggle to determine if they are required to file, so the...
Compliance | August 4th, 2023 Multiemployer Plans in Service, Printing, Manufacturing Receive More Than $1B in Assistance The three plans cover more than 30,000 participants across two states and Washington, D.C.