Tag: retirement plan regulations

The PBGC anticipates that providing plans with three available counting methods will allow each plan to choose the one that...

The life expectancy tables and applicable distribution period tables in the proposed regulations reflect longer life expectancies than the tables...

Michael Barry, president of O3 Plan Advisory Services LLC, contemplates whether questions asked in the DOL’s e-disclosure proposal could lead...

Attorneys explain that one order attempts to limit the force and effect of sub-regulatory guidance and the other would limit...

The IRS invites public comments and suggestions about guidance.

The agency will consider payments prior to plan terminations when calculating benefits, and it proposed to change its assumptions for...

Michael A. Webb, with Cammack Retirement Group, says there are no substantive changes from the proposed regulations, but he points...

The IRS anticipates that final regulations on closed DB plan nondiscrimination testing will not be published in time for plan...

The OMB has received for review a proposed rule from the DOL aimed at reducing costs and improving participant understanding...

The IRS says that, as published, its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) contains errors which may prove to be misleading...

The rule will permit employers to connect with associations of employers in a city, county, state, or a multi-state metropolitan...

Younger employees would benefit most from a requirement for employers to offer retirement plans, while older employees would benefit most...

Proposed regulations would provide an exception, if certain requirements are met, to a multiple employer plan (MEP) being disqualified due...

The proposed rulemaking would make technical corrections, clarifications, and improvements to its regulations on Reportable Events and Certain Other Notification...

Attorneys discuss provisions of the widely supported SECURE Act, plus hot topics in regulation.

A final rule from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) allows smaller plans terminated by mass withdrawal to perform actuarial...

Plan sponsors can look for new legislation and regulations that will have big effects on retirement plans this year, and...

The Department of the Treasury and the IRS use the Priority Guidance Plan to identify the next tax issues that should...

An IRS Revenue Procedure expands self-correction methods for certain retirement plan document and retirement plan loan failures and provides a...