Compliance | December 20th, 2024 PBGC Updates XRA Rate Tables, Missing Participants Mortality Assumption The final rule is effective January 1, 2025.
Administration | November 18th, 2024 DOL Launches Data Collection Effort For ‘Lost & Found’ Retirement Initiative Expected to go live in December, the database is designed to serve as a centralized resource for workers and beneficiaries...
Administration | June 5th, 2024 PSNC 2024: Lisa Gomez Talks Cybersecurity, AI, Retirement Security Rule The Department of Labor remains focused on creating a missing participants database, as well as providing guidance on cybersecurity and...
Administration | November 17th, 2023 EBSA Faces Budgeting Constraints as Responsibilities Increase The agency increasingly relies on supplemental funds, despite taking on more responsibilities, such as overseeing SECURE 2.0, according to the...
Compliance | June 9th, 2022 PSNC 2022: Preparing for Regulatory Audits and Investigations One key takeaway from a panel discussion about DOL and IRS audits: the occurrence of an audit does not necessarily...
Administration | May 9th, 2022 Pension Plan Sponsors Can Tackle Improper Payments More rigorous approaches may be needed for corporate pension plan sponsors to curtail profligate payments.
Opinions | August 5th, 2020 To Keep Pension Plan Liabilities Accurate, Get to Know Participants’ Marital Status Mindy Zatto and Mary Shah, with Strategic Benefits Advisors, discuss how keeping up with pension plan participants’ marital status can...
Compliance | December 27th, 2019 Tips on How to Find Missing Participants Failure to find missing participants could disqualify a retirement plan under the tax code and lead to breaches of the...
Compliance | March 8th, 2019 PBGC Gets Administration Support Among a host of other services, Serco Inc. will operate the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC)’s contact center and help...
Products | October 9th, 2018 DOL Pressure on Missing Participants Propels New Solution “As a plan sponsor, if you have an opportunity to deal with lost participants and do something with uncashed checks,...
Administration | August 31st, 2018 Mercer Makes Recommendations for Finding Missing Participants If there are missing participants that plan sponsors have not made a genuine effort to find, “the entire plan could...
Compliance | July 27th, 2018 ERIC Calls Foul in DOL’s Missing Participant Push In an open letter asking for more detailed guidance, the ERISA Industry Committee spells out what it says are “examples...
Compliance | June 29th, 2018 IRS and DOL Asked for Better Guidance on Missing Participants The Plan Sponsor Council of America has heard concerns from its members that they have been or may be subjected...
Ask the Experts | October 30th, 2017 A Special Halloween Edition “Do the Experts have any Treats for us this Halloween, or only Tricks?”
Compliance | October 2nd, 2017 PBGC Makes Proposals About Plan Terminations The agency is proposing that termination forms may be filed electronically and that plan sponsors be offered a pre-filing consultation.