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The Trump Administration in a recent letter to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, encouraged deep cuts to the funding of the IRS and Department of Labor ...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is set to vote on the nomination of Janet Dhillon to serve as the next Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
Frank Bisignano, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration, was confirmed in that role by the Senate on May 6 in a 53-47 vote. Frank Bisignano, President Trump’s nominee to ...
The reach of the Maine Retirement Savings Program is one step closer to expanding. And as legislation that would accomplish that advances, a variety of parties have weighed in on the merits and ...
The EBSA Investigations Transparency Act ( H.R. 2869) introduced April 10 by Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) would require EBSA to submit an annual report to Congress providing a status update on its ...
The Aloha State’s program that provides retirement plan coverage to employees whose private-sector employers do not had a unique feature when it was established — but that appears to be about to ...
With the dawn of the new year, the Social Security Fairness Act also came into being. But there’s more to it than what meets the eye — or at least, more than what its title suggests. The SSFA was ...
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 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 ...
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 ...