Tag: EBSA

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration has released to the public online datasets of Form 5500 annual report/returns for approximately 800,000 retirement, health, and other...

The Obama Administration on Monday released retirement initiatives, including establishing automatic individual retirement accounts (IRAs), simplifying and expanding the Saver's Credit, and updating 401(k) regulations to increase transparency.

A Department of Labor (DoL) administrative law judge has rejected the appeal by a 401(k) plan administrator of an $86,500 civil penalty, ruling that bankruptcy did not relieve...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will host a free Webcast about Form 5500 and electronic filing requirements on January 21 at 1 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against the owners of a bankrupt Chicago-area company for diverting their employees’ health care premium payments and 401(k) contributions...

Plan sponsors can now take full advantage of a new federal government system for online filing of the required annual report to the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)...

Michael Vick’s former financial advisers won’t be working with ERISA plans anymore.

Next month employers and plan fiduciaries in the Los Angeles, California area will get a chance to better understand their fiduciary responsibilities.

The head of the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) said today that the agency plans to release its long-awaited regulation dealing with providers’ fee disclosure...

In implementing its newly announced initiative to see how it can best facilitate the use of lifetime income investment vehicles in retirement plans, the U.S. Department of Labor...

The head of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will host a live public Web chat to discuss its regulatory agenda.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) said it is investigating how it can best encourage the use of lifetime annuities or other similar instruments.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Labor will present video remarks by Secretary Hilda L. Solis outlining the department’s regulatory agenda.

Those who were wondering when—or perhaps if—the issues raised in those revenue-sharing lawsuits would ever actually be tried got a strong, affirmative response last week.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has scheduled a fiduciary education seminar for December 8 in St. Louis.

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) today blasted the decision by the Obama Administration to withdraw the final regulations on investment advice.

The long saga of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DoL) hotly debated investment advice rule took another twist today when the DoL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced Monday that it is giving itself until May 17, 2010, to develop a new version of its...

About a week ago, Caterpillar agreed to a $16.5 million settlement of one of those allegedly excessive fee/revenue-sharing lawsuits.

Plan sponsors (and “plan professionals,” including advisers) looking to bone up on the new Form 5500 will have another chance to do so online.