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April 15, 2025
|6 min read
Pension Risk Transfer Litigation Targets Multiply and Courts Finally Weigh In
annuity providers to ensure compliance with fiduciary duties. Read on for a summary of recent developments and insights.
March 4, 2025
|3 min read
17, 2025. As an alternative to the more onerous VFCP Application Process, certain common plan errors will soon be eligible for a streamlined self-correction
process, known as the Self-Correction Component (SCC). In addition, the DOL amended the associated Prohibited Transaction Exemption, PTE 20...Read more
August 4, 2023
|8 min read
Departments Release Proposed Mental Health Parity Regulations: Key Changes for Employers
Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA).
February 4, 2022
|3 min read
Benefits Bulletin: Health & Welfare Plans – February 2022
February 2, 2022
|2 min read
DOL Letter Clarifies 2020 Letter on Private Equity in Defined Contribution Plans
in private equity funds.
November 10, 2021
|5 min read
The DOL’s Latest ESG and Proxy Voting Proposals
its two sets of final regulations finalized in late 2020.
April 9, 2021
|8 min read
DOL Issues Guidance on COBRA Subsidy Provision under the American Rescue Plan Act
American Rescue Plan Act (the Act).
February 18, 2021
|4 min read
Recent DOL Guidance on Missing Participants
apply for retirement benefits because they cannot be located (or do not respond to critical plan communications).
March 12, 2020
|5 min read
Traps for the Unwary: Common Mistakes in Applying Compensation Definitions Under Retirement Plans
contributes a percentage of the employee’s pay each year, or, in a defined benefit pension plan, the employee’s benefit will be based on his or her final
average pay or career average pay.
August 28, 2019
|less than 1 min read
New Guidance from the Department on USERRA
(USERRA) fact sheet called the USERRA Fact Sheet 1.
August 19, 2019
|1 min read
Department of Labor Issues Updated CHIP Notice
May 16, 2019
|2 min read
Department of Labor Announces Statement of Temporary Non-Enforcement Following AHP Ruling
for the District of Columbia’s ruling in State of New York v. U.S. DOL of Labor, which vacated a key part of the Department’s final regulations expanding the
availability of association health plans (AHPs).
March 1, 2019
|2 min read
DOL Enforcement Initiative: The Law on Benefit Plan Expenses
sponsor. Expenses incurred by an employee benefit plan fall into two broad categories: settlor expenses and fiduciary expenses. Fiduciary expenses can be
paid from plan assets; however, settlor expenses cannot be paid from plan assets. Improperly paying expenses with plan assets could constitute ...Read more
February 14, 2019
|2 min read
Department of Labor Reaffirms ERISA Preemption of State Wage Withholding Laws
Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), of state civil laws that require employers to obtain written consent before withholding amounts from employees’
wages for contribution to a benefit plan subject to ERISA.
August 31, 2018
|1 min read
DOL Issues Association Health Plan Compliance Assistance
various rules that apply under ERISA for managing and operating a group health plan.
March 26, 2018
|less than 1 min read
DOL’s Fiduciary Rule Remains in Limbo
Acosta, in Case No. 16-5345, an ongoing legal challenge to the Department’s fiduciary rule, have stipulated and agreed to voluntarily dismiss the case.
December 17, 2013
|1 min read
December 11, 2013
|2 min read
Best Practices for ERISA Plan Revenue-Sharing Account Arrangements