Tag: Retirement New Legislation

Legislation drafted as part of the Congressional budget reconciliation process includes a broad mandate for employers to offer retirement plans,...

The spate of recent proposals aims to help Americans not only with retirement savings but also with financial wellness issues.

Speakers at a Senate HELP Committee hearing highlighted how the defined contribution plan coverage gap is the most severe for...

Among the potential retirement policy solutions that could become law in 2021 is a provision to allow 403(b) plans to...

Retirement industry practitioners will be eagerly watching the House and Senate for progress on the SECURE Act 2.0 and related...

Murray and Wyden’s letter to the IRS and Treasury asks why employers will be permitted to offload pension liabilities and...

The legislation would strengthen consumer protections, improve access to retirement savings plans for part-time workers, help increase women’s financial literacy,...

The Butch Lewis Act offers a way to preserve union retiree pension benefits through an emergency loan program funded with...

One of three bills introduced this week as part of “Tax Reform 2.0,” the Family Savings Act includes many of...

If plan sponsors have suggestions and or would like to express support for health savings accounts, now is a good...

The trust and expectation that employees place in their employers to help them prepare effectively for retirement is stronger than...

Prudential Financial experts anticipate Social Security’s funding shortfall will likely result in program changes over time, such as reducing cost-of-living...

According to the Social Security Board of Trustees, the total annual cost of the federal benefits program is projected to...

According to the text of the complaint, the act that created the California Secure Choice program “violates the Supremacy Clause...

Tens of thousands of employers in the U.S. contribute to multiemployer pension funds that are in critical and declining status,...

Willis Towers Watson researchers present various opportunities “outside of traditional hedging assets other than long corporate credit that may be...

U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch and Sherrod Brown are seeking public and industry input on ways to improve the solvency of...

Peg Knox, chief operating officer of DCIIA, points to both the coverage gap and retirement income adequacy as being top...

The fact that two U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Fifth and the Tenth, have issued conflicting rulings about the propriety of...