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All Items: Retirement Benefits

  • COVID Relief Package: What Employers Need to Know

    Date:
    March 10, 2021

    Congress has passed the sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill and sent it to the White House for President Biden to sign.

  • Trump Signs Federal COVID-19 Relief Act

    Date:
    December 28, 2020

    President Trump signed the COVID-19 relief bill, which includes $900 billion earmarked for COVID-19 aid. In addition to extending the availability of tax credits for employers that continue to provide leave under the terms established by the FFCRA, the bill contains a number of other takeaways for employers.

  • DOL Updates COBRA Model Notices

    Date:
    May 11, 2020

    The US Department of Labor has revised its model COBRA notices to provide additional information about COBRA's interaction with Medicare.

  • Year-End Law Repeals "Cadillac Tax," Enacts SECURE Act

    Date:
    January 9, 2020

    An appropriations bill signed as 2019 closed repealed the ACA's "Cadillac tax" on certain high-cost, employer-based healthcare plans and enacted the SECURE Act, which eases compliance burdens for certain employer-sponsored retirement plans.

  • DOL Eases Roll-Over Rules for Left-Behind 401(k) Funds

    Date:
    August 16, 2019

    The DOL has issued a final exemption to make it easier for employers to transfer 401(k) plan funds left behind by former workers to their new employers' plans.

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