Tag: Legislation

The agency is looking for ways to simplify DB plan calculations.

Phyllis Borzi revealed some of the thoughts behind certain DOL initiatives, and asked for help from the industry.

To expand private-sector coverage, a new report from the GAO calls for Congress to amend the ERISA pre-emption provision.

The guidance also contains final excise tax regulations applicable to both single-employer and multiemployer defined benefit plans.

The IRS says identity protection received as a result of a data breach will not be considered taxable benefits.

Significant attention is building around public-sponsored retirement plans for private-sector workers, but what will these plans mean for established industry providers?

Over-funded pension plans would have a longer time period in which they could use surpluses to pay for retiree health and life insurance benefits.

President Obama has asked the DOL for guidance by the end of the year.

Legislation in Connecticut will protect transferred pension assets from creditor claims.

Effective July 9, DB plan sponsors may no longer offer a lump-sum window to participants who have begun receiving installments.

A working group established by the Senate Committee on Finance shows support for a number of proposals to reform the American retirement savings system.

Why are older Americans’ retirement income shortfalls everyone’s problem?

Labor Secretary Perez was just about the only witness called to a recent Congressional hearing to actually defend the DOL’s fiduciary redefinition effort.

The bill would require private-sector businesses to offer retirement accounts to employees.

In a section called “Reducing Harmful Red Tape,” the committee proposes a “provision prohibiting regulatory changes to the definition of the term ‘Fiduciary.’”

What can retirement planners in the U.S. learn from other countries’ steps to support populations quickly skewing older?

Unresolved issues remain around the selectivity requirement for top hat plans.

A group of Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. House introduced the Receiving Electronic Statements to Improve Retiree Earnings (RETIRE) Act.