Compliance

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressman George Miller (D-California) took the House Committee on Education and Labor on a field trip today.

October 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington state Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that the Port of Seattle owes retired union workers health care benefits agreed to during...

October 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Target Corp. worker lost her challenge to a disability benefits denial when a federal judge said the plan administrator reasonably determined...

October 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has declared that the former manager at a Pennsylvania bank was not protected from firing in an embezzlement probe because...

October 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have released final rules governing implementation of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act that governs the length of hospital stays...

October 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of and advisers to 403(b) plans recently got some clarification regarding compliance directly from one of the "architects" of the new regulations.

October 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have reaffirmed their position that the goal for investments in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans must be to generate...

October 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Thursday the contribution limits for defined contribution plans increased for 2009.

October 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Congressional lawmakers have formally called on the Treasury Department to suspend the tax penalty for taxpayers who do not take the minimum...

October 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials on Tuesday released executive compensation standards for companies involved in any of several phases of the economic recovery bill recently signed...

October 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A co-architect of some of the most significant pension legislation of the past decade has weighed in on the new withdrawal proposals.

October 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) used an Ohio speech to call for rules governing distributions from retirement savings accounts to...

October 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has published a "request for information" (RFI) to assist the department in implementing...

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Treasury announced an extension of the date by which a governmental plan must comply with final regulations...

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees feeling hemmed in by minimum distribution requirements got some support from the two leading presidential candidates.

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut became the third state to legalize same-sex marriage with a state Supreme Court ruling that gay couples have the constitutional right to...

October 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition for review by Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) of a ruling upholding a $100,000 punitive damages...

October 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U. S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has scheduled an October 21 public hearing on its proposed regulation for...

October 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the now-defunct People Unlimited Consulting Inc. and two executives of the Charlotte, North Carolina, employee staffing...

October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While participants (and plan sponsors) nervously contemplated the impact of the market tumult on their retirement savings, Congress held a hearing on the...