Compliance

July 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service made an online resource available to guide individuals through the process of rolling their tax-deferred assets from one retirement...

July 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move that echoes several states' efforts to pressure large retailers to offer richer employee health care packages, local Chicago lawmakers have...

July 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new rules Wednesday that will require more disclosure of executive pay details from companies, starting next...

July 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means health subcommittee asked legislators to consider a plan that would provide health care insurance...

July 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington state Supreme Court justices have turned aside arguments that the state's Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) is unconstitutional, as some same-sex couples...

July 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maine Senator Olympia Snowe proposed a bill Tuesday night that could help ease the costs for small businesses to offer retirement plans.

July 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new set of defendants in ongoing securities litigation against Global Crossing have agreed to add $99 million into a settlement pot that...

July 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The main issues keeping lawmakers from reaching an agreement on new pension reform legislation Tuesday were details over funding relief for airlines and...

July 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that a pension fund did not step over pension law when it...

July 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent analysis from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) found that pension reform legislation expected to be released at any time could...

July 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's ruling that a former retirement plan participant did not meet requirements under section...

July 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that a cash balance plan adopted for employees, managers and agents...

July 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US House Majority Leader John Boehner said Thursday that members of the congressional committee negotiating the pension reform bill have mostly agreed on...

July 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Wisconsin District 1 Court of Appeals has ruled that the advice the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department received regarding its pension enhancement was...

Plan sponsors will have to file Form 5500 Annual Reports electronically beginning with 2008 plan year filings that are due in 2009.

July 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will consider adopting its proposed executive compensation disclosure mandate at a July 26 meeting.

July 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Governor George Pataki vetoed a more generous retirement incentive bill for state and local government workers.

July 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the Associated Press, the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation said Wednesday it would drop further appeals and pay $52 million to...

July 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Even though the US House-Senate pension reform conference committee has yet to release a draft of its proposed compromise, Lyn Dudley, vice president of...

July 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has agreed to take on the $11.9 million shortfall of Massachusetts-based Plymouth Rubber Co., which filed for bankruptcy...