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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plans - admin Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Cyberattack Exposes 123,000 Federal Thrift Savings Plan Accounts [Guidance Overview] Transcript of IRS Webcast: Employee Plans Determination Letter Program Update (March 30, 2012) (PDF) Why Low Costs and Fees Are So Important to the Success of Your Company's 401(k) Plan Public Sector Defined Contribution Plans: Rising to the Challenge of the New Fee Disclosure Requirements A Misguided Kennedy Offspring from the Third Circuit Has the DOL Really Taken a Stand on Open MEPs? [Guidance Overview] The Day After the 408(b)(2) Effective Date: What Happens on July 2, 2012? (PDF) [Opinion] The MEWA, the MEP and Regulated Scale [Guidance Overview] Compliance Checklist 2012 for ERISA-Covered Defined Benefit Plans, Defined Contribution Plans and 403(b) Plans(PDF) [Guidance Overview] Compliance Checklist 2012 for Non-ERISA Plans: Qualified Governmental and Nonelecting Church Plans, Non-ERISA 403(b) Plans, 457 Plans and Nonqualified Executive Benefit Plans (PDF) Morningstar Debuts Web-Based Variable Annuity Research Tool Retirement Income Review: Hueler DOL Releases Preliminary 2009 Versions of Pension and Health Plan Bulletins and Form 5500 Data [Guidance Overview] DOL Makes Small Changes to Field Assistance Bulletin 2012-02 (Participant Disclosure FAQs) [Guidance Overview] Common Plan Mistake: Miscalculating Matching Contributions [Guidance Overview] Court of Appeals Rejects Equitable Remedies When SPD Promises More Generous Benefits Than Pension Plan Document [Guidance Overview] ERISA Preempted State Claim That Employment Contract Promised Benefit Under Pension Plan [Guidance Overview] EBSA Makes Small Clarifying Correction to FAB 2012-02 FAQs on Participant-Level Fee Disclosure American Workers Shifting Their Plans and Expectations for Retirement (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Another Question is Answered in the Who's the Employer Q&A Column Can Ford's Lump-Sum Buyout Technique Work for Other Pension Plan Sponsors? DOL FAQs Address Participant Fee Disclosure Rules as Applied to Brokerage Windows, Calculation of Total Annual Operating Expense Ratio [Official Guidance] June 12 IRS Phone Forum to Address 403(b) Written Plan Requirement and Frequent Issues [Guidance Overview] 9th Circuit Case Addresses Equitable Remedies Post-Amara and Says Mere Violations of Law Do Not Establish 'Harm' Creating Equitable Remedies Spring 2012 Report of Results from the Segal Survey of Calendar Year Multiemployer Pension Plans' 2012 Zone Status Ex-Government Officials Refuse to Cooperate with Delphi Pension Probe Some Ford Retirees Facing Major Pension Decision: Take or Reject Buy-Out Offer DOL Alleges Idaho Plan Administrator Misused Retirement Funds [Opinion] Text of Comments to IRS by Pension Action Center Urging IRS to Retain Strict Requirement of Providing Notices to Separated Plan Participants PBGC to Request Comments on Information Collection for Locating and Paying Participants Employer Agrees to Restore $1.3 Million to Employee Retirement Plan Reinhart Employee Benefits Update, May 2012 (PDF) Current Challenges and Best Practices Concerning Beneficiary Designations in Retirement and Life Insurance Plans (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Final PBGC Regs on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Paying Benefits (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice 2012-36: April 2012 Update for Weighted Average Interest Rates, Yield Curves, and Segment Rates (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Despite Husband's Beneficiary Designation, Second Wife Not Entitled to Annuity When Husband Never Divorced First Wife [Guidance Overview] Foreign Parent Company Was Properly Joined in PBGC Suit Against U.S. Subsidiary's Pension Plan Reviewing Your 401(k) Plan's Hardship Distribution Procedures [Opinion] Text of Comments by ASPPA on Use of 401(k) Plan Forfeitures as Safe Harbor Contributions [Official Guidance] Text of Official Notice to Pension Plan Participants; PBGC Takes Over Responsibility for Payments at Large Law Firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf (PDF) PBGC Working to Help Employers Maintain Pensions In Addition to Role as Pension Payment Insurer Factors to Use When Considering a Defined Pension Benefit Buyout Offer from Your Employer (PDF) IRS Page on Correcting Plan Errors: VCP Submission Kits for Pre-Approved Plans Benefits Administration: To Outsource or Manage In-House? PBGC and American Airlines Strike Deal on Frozen Underfunded Pension Plans [Guidance Overview] Employer No Longer Contributing to Multiemployer Plan Cannot Use Sale of Assets Exemption Under MPPAA Reinhart Employee Benefits Update, April 2012 (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of DOL Field Assistance Bulletin 2012-02: FAQs on Participant-Level Fee Disclosures and Service Provider Fee Disclosures [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Rev. Rul. 2012-13 for Federal Rates; Adjusted Federal Rates; Adjusted Federal Long-Term Rate and the Long-Term Exempt Rate [Opinion] A Policy Argument for Treating Individual 403(b)(7) Custodial Accounts As Distributable Assets Upon Plan Termination [Guidance Overview] 'Unrelated Business Taxable Income' Did Not Spoil Tax-Exempt Organization's Exemption from Excise Tax on Plan Asset Reversion 'Co-Sourcing' Trends of DC Plan Management [Guidance Overview] Former Trustee Liable for over $4 Million for Breach of Fiduciary Duty [Opinion] Text of Comments by American Benefits Council to IRS on Proposed Regs on Longevity Annuity Contracts (PDF) PBGC Statement on the Bankruptcy of Hawker Beechcraft, Inc. As a Plan Sponsor, Are You Prepared to Provide Fee Disclosures to Participants? [Opinion] Ford's Retiree Cashout: A Trap for the Unwary [Guidance Overview] Another Question is Answered in the Who's the Employer Q&A Column Ford Aims to Trim Pension Risk by Buying Out Salaried Retirees and Former Employees [Official Guidance] Did Your DB Plan Miss the April 30, 2012 EGTRRA Amendment Deadline? IRS Web Site Describes Correction Needed Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. 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