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Spring cleaning is well underway. But that need not be limited to closets, kitchens, and garages—it can serve retirement plans and their administrators too. And one such prime function is addressing missing participants.
Missing participants—former employees whose benefits remain in the plan but...
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Ongoing economic challenges are changing how Americans are thinking about retirement planning, with nearly 6 in 10 pre-retirees (57%) believing that inflation poses the most immediate challenge to their retirement portfolios over the next 12 months.
And this stress apparently is shifting the...
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Momentum is increasing in Congress to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO).
In March, Reps. Garret Graves (R-La.) and Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) called on the House Ways and Means Committee to hold a markup on their bipartisan bill, H.R. 82, the...
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The Green Mountain State and the Centennial State are going to partner in establishing VT Saves, the state-run program that will provide retirement plan coverage for private-sector employees in Vermont whose employers do not.
On June 1, 2023, Gov. Phil Scott (R) signed into law a measure creating...
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The IRS on April 16 issued guidance on certain specified required minimum distributions (RMDs) for 2024. It adds that the final regulations it plans to issue related to RMDs will apply for purposes of determining RMDs for calendar years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2025.
The guidance is...
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“53% of retirees in the United States go back to work either part-time or full-time,” Mauro Guillén, Vice Dean at the Wharton School, told attendees in a general session at the recent NAPA 401(k) Summit. Guillén emphasized that it's not just a money management issue—it's retirees wanting to feel...
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A new survey-driven analysis of the Saver’s Match program enacted under the SECURE 2.0 Act finds that the program has the potential to be a “force multiplier” in helping lower-to-middle income Americans boost their retirement savings prospects.
More specifically, the analysis conducted by Boston...
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Collective investment trusts (CITs) are a greater focus of attention and activity in the wake of SECURE 2.0, as a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report highlights.
In “Pensions and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): Investment Issues,” the CRS provides an overview of pension...
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on April 8 that Central States is returning approximately $127 million in excess funds it received through the PBGC’s Special Financial Assistance (SFA) program.
The Central States pension plan, at the...
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Beware the Ides of March, the adage goes. This year, at least, they were nothing to fear—private-sector pension plans had a good month, according to recent analyses.
Or rather, another good month, since their March performance is a continuation of the warm winter private-sector DB plans had....
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A new study finds that Americans’ “magic number” for retirement has surged to an all-time high, jumping 15% in just a year and a whopping 53% since the onset of the pandemic.
As a result, Americans now believe they will need to save $1.46 million to retire comfortably, up from $1.27 million...
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A variety of factors slow some individuals’ retirement saving, if not impede it outright—and one of them is student loan debt. A recent NTSA webinar looked at a step some entities pursue that affects those with loans as well as retirement saving—student loan forgiveness.
In a March 27 NTSA...
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Increasing private-sector retirement plan coverage in a shifting retirement landscape is a major factor behind legislation that would establish Rhode Island Secure Choice, says Rhode Island General Treasurer James Diossa. The measure would provide retirement plan coverage for private-sector...
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The digital edition of the Spring 2024 issue of Plan Consultant, ASPPA’s members-only magazine, has been posted online!
More than a quarter of the 90-odd SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 provisions are effective this year. Most are optional, but still…In this issue’s cover story, an expert panel—Shannon...
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Add private-sector employees in Alaska and Wisconsin to those covered by state-run plans if their employers do not offer a retirement plan. Maybe.
That is, if the governments of both states enact bills that would create state-run retirement savings plans for private-sector employees who do not...
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) on March 29 announced that it is slashing the default overpayment withholding rate for Social Security beneficiaries from 100% to 10% or $10, whichever is greater.
The change went into effect on March 25, 2024. But it applies to new overpayments, not those...
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Longevity and greater spending are "putting the U.S. retirement system under immense strain," BlackRock CEO Larry Fink wrote in his annual shareholder letter.
In the letter, bluntly titled “Time to Rethink Retirement,” Fink argued that capital markets will be critical in addressing what he called...
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A recent “news” post about a blog post finds some curious “faults” with the 401(k).
The news item carried the provocative title “‘Rich Dad’ Robert Kiyosaki Reveals Why the 401(k) Is a ‘Horrible’ Retirement Plan.” It originally ran on GoBankingRates.com, but was subsequently picked up in...
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It’s the latest iteration of the auto revolution (enrollment, escalation, portability). While not directly related to 401(k)s, an idea for automatic adjustments involves retirement income—specifically, Social Security.
Alicia Munnell and William Arnone, two familiar names in retirement plan...
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Washington is the latest state to run a retirement program that will provide coverage for private-sector employees whose employers do not.
On March 27, Pat Sullivan, Executive Director of Legislative Affairs in Inslee’s office, issued an announcement that SB 6069 was among the bills the Gov. Jay...
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