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After months of speculation, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) newly released Spring 2023 regulatory agenda confirms that a fiduciary rule rewrite could be released later this summer; it also provides other key insight for the department’s regulatory plans for the coming months.
In fact, the fall...
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Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has introduced a bill that would block private pension plans under ERISA from making new investments in companies controlled by or based in foreign adversaries.
H.R. 4008, The Protecting Americans’ Retirement Savings Act (PARSA) would also require the disclosure of existing...
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) on June 14 issued the interest assumptions under the asset allocation regulation for plans with valuation dates in the third quarter of 2023.
The assumptions are contained in a final rule that amends the PBGC’s regulation on Allocation of Assets in...
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC) regulatory agenda now includes proposed rules to reflect updates to the dollar limit for mandatory distributions under SECURE 2.0.
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has outlined the PBGC...
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Legislation that seeks to strengthen protections and safeguards from financial predators scamming senior investors out of their savings passed the House of Representatives June 5 by a unanimous voice vote.
With older Americans reportedly losing up to $36 billion[1] each year to scams, the Senior...
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The Department of Labor has pushed back on a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 25 state attorneys general that challenged its so-called ESG regulation.
The coalition,[1] led by Texas Attorney General Paxton, said in a January 2023 press release that the 2022 Rule “undermines key protections for...
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Nevada is poised to become another state with a state-run retirement savings program for private-sector employees.
The Nevada Assembly passed the bill, SB305, on June 4 by a vote of 35-7. Senate Chief Majority Whip Dallas Harris (D-Las Vegas) introduced the bill on March 16; it was referred to...
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Vermont is now among the states providing a state-run plan for private-sector employees whose employers are not. Gov. Phil Scott (R) has signed into law the measure that called for the creation of their iteration.
On June 1, Scott signed S. 135, the bill that creates VTSaves. Action on the...
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Acting with a sense of urgency to avoid a first-ever federal debt default, the U.S. Senate late June 1 approved legislation to suspend the federal debt limit until 2025, clearing the measure for presidential signature, expected today.
The Senate vote on the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (H.R....
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The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) on May 30 urging it to “effectively and expeditiously” implement SECURE 2.0. It also urged the DOL to prioritize six provisions related to the committee’s mission.
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Amid threats of the economy crashing and 401(k)s plummeting, the House of Representatives late May 31 approved legislation to suspend the federal debt limit until 2025.
Facing a June 5 deadline to avoid a first-ever federal default if Congress does not act, the House approved the Fiscal...
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Legislation is before the New York state Senate that would allow certain employees of the city of New York to be automatically enrolled in the New York City Board of Education Retirement System.
The state Assembly has passed the legislation; a third committee of the state Senate is now...
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Racing against a looming June 5 deadline, negotiators for President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked late into the night on May 26 in order to announce an agreement in principle on the morning of May 27 to raise the debt ceiling.
The news came just over one week before the earliest...
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There is pressure from state legislatures for action concerning the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and the government pension offset (GPO). Both are benefit formulas that reduce Social Security benefits for workers and their eligible family members if the worker receives (or is entitled to) a...
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The odds increased of Nevada becoming the next state to provide retirement plan coverage to private-sector employees whose employers do not, when the state Senate on May 29 voted in favor of legislation that would do just that.
SB305 was introduced on March 16, 2023.
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The IRS has issued guidance on the expansion of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) under Section 305 of SECURE 2.0.
The guidance is contained in Notice 2023-43, which provides interim guidance in advance of an update to Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2021-30.
The issues the...
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With more than a third of the U.S. workforce said to be currently engaged in temporary, contract or on-demand work, a bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced legislation to test “innovative portable benefit designs” to help level the playing field for these workers who lack access to benefits...
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On May 23, Congress sent a letter to the Treasury Department informing Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel that it will introduce legislation to fix several technical errors contained in SECURE 2.0.
Signed by four prominent SECURE 2.0 figures—House Ways and Means Committee...
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The ink is barely dry on the measures that created state-run retirement plans in Connecticut and Maine that provide coverage for private-sector employees whose employers do not, but already bills are advancing in the legislatures in those states to fine-tune those programs.
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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on May 24 passed HB 577, a bill that would create the Keystone Saves Program, which would be an automatic enrollment payroll deduction IRA retirement savings program.
The measure passed in a 106-95 vote. All 101 Democrats in the state House voted for it,...
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