Compliance

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's yet another post-Enron pension protection bill on the horizon, this one introduced last week by Senators John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and Olympia Snowe...

April 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit plan participants will get between 15 and 45 days notice before implementation of significant plan changes likely to cut future benefit...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors adversely impacted by California's massive wildfires have been granted a certain measure of relief from the nation's private pension insurer.

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Contrary to arguments from women and senior's groups that maintaining the current Social Security system was vital to ensuring women's financial security, a recent finding...

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and government plan sponsors have been almost uniformly ecstatic about recent IRS regulations - but the deferral of sick and vacation pay...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Converting to a cash balance plan with a "wear-away" provision to cut off participants' anticipated benefits does not violate ERISA's prohibition on forfeiture...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), looking down the barrel of an $18.3-million budget shortfall, is considering sending its 2,783 employees on an...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US defined benefit pension system desperately needs systematic reform as it struggles with an underfunding epidemic that now exceeds a record $300...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 50 employers with defined benefit plans have formed their own lobbying group to do publicity about the DB arrangements and to...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, securities regulators issued a report showing that nearly one in three transactions in front-end load mutual funds didn't get the breakpoint...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned away claims by a participant in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) that the fund violated ERISA...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of more than 70 lawmakers has sponsored a bill to help provide health insurance to more Americans.

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decertified the remaining 25% of a class action involving promised retiree medical benefits at Unisys, ruling that the remaining...

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forget about the Super Bowl, the emergence of Puxatawny Phil or Valentine's Day, when Congress reconvenes today the nation's legislators will be turning...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who is not enrolled in the company health plan, and thus not a participant, does not have standing to sue for...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A "subsequent good act" of hiring an older worker after firing another worker alleging age discrimination may be submitted as relevant evidence in...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because payments made to executives hinged on a change of company ownership, they are considered golden parachute distributions even though the contracts calling...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A jobs bill now pending in the US House of Representatives would also have a variety of impacts on employee benefits.

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who thought the Bush Administration's retirement savings proposals were DOA are in for a surprise next year.

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has announced plans to assume responsibility for the pension of nearly 23,000 workers and retires of bankrupt Pillowtex...