The Massachusetts legislature may take another crack at establishing a Secure Choice program. Legislation that would have established such a program has not yet been enacted, but a new proposal to ...

The PBGC in its annual meeting with the American Bar Association Joint Committee on Employee Benefits concerning the agency's activity in FY 2023 reported record low reportable event filings. It also ...

What is top of mind for the American Retirement Association (ARA) this session of Congress? Will Hansen, the ARA’s Chief Government Affairs Officer, at the PSCA National Conference outlined the ARA’s ...

The SSFA was enacted on Jan. 5. To achieve that fairness, it repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The law is applicable to monthly benefits payable ...

Former Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration Lisa Gomez and high-profile ERISA attorney Fred Reish joined Hansen for the morning session, appropriately titled ...

The IRS has announced the health savings account (HSA) and high deductible health plan (HDHP) limits for 2026. The announcement came in IRS Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2025-19, which the IRS issued ...

First introduced in December 2022 and then again in October 2023, the Retirement Savings for Americans Act (RSAA) would establish a federal retirement plan that would include a matching contribution ...

Assistant Majority Whip Henry Aquino (D-Waipahu) introduced SB 855 on Jan. 17, 2025. State Rep. Jackson Sayama (D-St. Louis Heights) introduced HB 847, the House of Representatives version of S. 855, ...

Trusteeship of plans and claims with which the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is involved for the most part alternatively rise and then fall and then rise again only to fall the next year ...

A provision of the SECURE 2.0 Act that is intended to increase access to DC plans was one that requires long-term part-time employees — defined as 500 hours per year for two consecutive years — to be ...