Compliance

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp. (BOA) has announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has tentatively concluded that it violated "anti-cutback" rules in connection...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many more US workers would enjoy a higher initial retiree benefit from the current Social Security program than from an individual account plan...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Problems in the defined benefit pension system should prompt Congress to reconsider the entire legal underpinning of the insurance system administered by the...

January 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shrinking market values and a growing number of pension fund failures have taken their toll on the nation's private pension insurer.

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In Congressional testimony Tuesday, a second retirement services trade group has blasted the Bush Administration's pension reform proposal, saying it "will reduce retirement...

February 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut is one step closer to creating civil unions for gay and lesbian couples and may go a step beyond that.

February 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed the pensions for Lobdell Emery Corp. and Howell Industries, subsidiaries of Oxford Automotive Inc.

February 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bay State's top court - which earlier ruled that same-sex couples could not be denied the right to marry in the state...

February 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is seeking comments on a proposed rule change to section 4062(e) of the Employee Retirement Income Security...

February 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Canadian government has erased the limit on foreign investment in pension plans and registered retirement savings plans (RRSP) as part of the...

February 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case regarding whether workers should be compensated for the time they spend changing into...

February 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have set May 23, 2005 as a deadline for companies which avoided taxes by transferring stock options or...

February 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two federal appeals courts have sided with employees in legal disputes over whether employers can regulate - mandate or prohibit - the wearing...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have announced that the IRS is now accepting applications for opinion and advisory letters for certain defined contribution...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate has again passed a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate based on genetic data, repeating a step taken...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even while finding that the TPA of an occupational injury benefit plan covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) abused its...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that employees' pension rights were not violated when their employer outsourced their division to a subcontractor.

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush Administration's point person on proposed defined benefit pension reforms on Friday defended the administration's recently released plan and termed a critical...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao on Friday released a statement applauding a US Senate group for introducing a bill to allow small...

February 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has awarded $2 million in fees to lawyers in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) suit brought against ExxonMobil...