Legislation that would help more Americans ages 18 to 20 access employer-sponsored retirement plans was introduced by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Wednesday.
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BY John Sullivan | 11/15/2023
BY Ted Godbout | 11/7/2023
The ongoing battle over the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in determining retirement investments continues unabated, as members of the House Ways and Means Committee dug... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 10/27/2023
Not long after the wildfires in Lahaina, Maui destroyed more than 2,000 buildings and caused billions of dollars in damages, a delegation of Hawaii lawmakers introduced legislation to significantly... Read More
BY John Iekel | 10/24/2023
A panel at the Oct. 22 opening session of the 2023 ASPPA Annual Conference expressed agreement with the notion of closing the coverage gap but also evinced great concern over the effect legislation... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 10/24/2023
To incentivize so-called micro-businesses with less than 10 employees to adopt retirement plans, a bipartisan pair of House lawmakers introduced legislation that would increase and alter the way the... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 10/20/2023
[This article has been updated to reflect that Dan Gilbert is not one of EIG's co-founders, he is a member of the Founders Circle, an advisory board with no governance responsibilities. Additionally... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 10/5/2023
Legally operated cannabis companies could soon be allowed to sponsor retirement plans under legislation recently approved by the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.
By a vote of... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 10/2/2023
Concerns about increasing partisanship in traditionally bipartisan retirement policy and legislation was the theme of a conversation between Brian Graff and Preston Rutledge at the NAPA/NTSA ERISA... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/29/2023
In a move that would allow more individuals to save more for their health care expenses in retirement, the House Ways and Means Committee on Sept. 28 approved legislation to significantly expand the... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 9/18/2023
Democrats have reintroduced a bill during President Biden’s ongoing battle over student debt forgiveness to restore federal protections for Social Security benefits to prevent them from garnishment... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/6/2023
The top Republican member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has introduced legislation taking aim at the pending nomination of Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/29/2023
Pensions were not on my mind in 1974, certainly not on Labor Day of that year.
While I was pondering my new college textbooks (and trying to figure out how I was going to pay for $.55/gallon... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 8/8/2023
Legislation to encourage retirement savings by fostering the growth of S corporations that are owned by Employee Stock Ownership Plans (S-ESOP) has been introduced in both the House and Senate.... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 8/2/2023
Is it ESG for me but not for thee?
Republicans heavily criticized environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing policies in recent months, arguing it does little more than... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 7/31/2023
House and Senate Democrats quietly reintroduced bills on Thursday to require spousal consent for 401(k) distributions.
H.R.5060 and S.2627 would “amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 7/28/2023
A markup by the House Financial Services Committee that started with numerous delaying tactics and accusations from each party that the other wasn’t acting in good faith ended more than 12 hours... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 7/27/2023
Building off the SECURE 2.0 Act and taking a page out of the “behavioral finance playbook,” two influential senators introduced bipartisan legislation to establish an automatic reenrollment safe... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 7/27/2023
“Senator Ben Cardin has been beyond instrumental in making our retirement system work the way it does today,” American Retirement Association (ARA) CEO Brian Graff said at the outset of a ceremony at... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 7/12/2023
As certain provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) take hold for plan fiduciaries, four bipartisan bills to expand on those reforms have been introduced in the House... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 6/29/2023
The American Retirement Association joined over 100 organizations—including major corporations, law firms, and advocacy outlets—in sending a letter Thursday to the House Ways & Means Committee... Read More
BY Robert Richter | 6/27/2023
We are all painfully aware of the complexity of the tax and labor laws we work with. It is, therefore, no surprise that Congress makes drafting mistakes when amending these laws—particularly with... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 6/22/2023
The ongoing battle over the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions for retirement plans continues.
The latest salvo comes from Reps. Andy... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 6/21/2023
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., re-upped the Tax on Wall Street Speculation Act of 2023 last week, their financial transaction tax (FTT) bill... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 6/21/2023
The Senate Banking Committee passed the Recovering Executive Compensation Obtained from Unaccountable Practices (RECOUP) Act on Wednesday.
Spearheaded by Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and... Read More
BY John Sullivan | 6/14/2023
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., introduced a bill on Monday to block private pension plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) from making new investments in companies controlled by or... Read More
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