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BY Andrew Remo | 11/27/2018
House Republicans released a wide-ranging tax package on Monday night – including a number of retirement savings provisions – setting the stage for negotiations on a year-end tax package as the... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 11/26/2018
With time running out for the 115th Congress, a controversial solution to a looming pension crisis has emerged.The crisis involves the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC) Multiemployer... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 11/21/2018
In what will be his third stint as chairman, veteran senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has decided to return as head of the powerful Senate Finance Committee.When the 116thCongress convenes in January... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 11/19/2018
A group of Senate Democrats have introduced a bill “designed to help more working families and middle-class Americans save for retirement” – and it brings back MyRA.The legislation – the Encouraging... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 11/7/2018
UPDATED AS OF NOV. 8, 2018As expected, the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in the congressional midterm elections, portending a major shift in focus for retirement policy... Read More
BY Brian Graff | 10/18/2018
ERISA was enacted to provide national protections for participants in employer-sponsored retirement plans – but proposed legislation would undermine those protections.A bill introduced in the Senate... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 10/11/2018
If, as some think, the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives flips to the Democrats in the mid-term elections, retirement policy will be a top priority for the new chairman of the Ways &... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 10/3/2018
Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would create a parallel government-run retirement savings program – and one that could undermine the 401(k), particularly for... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/28/2018
The House of Representatives approved legislation Sept. 27 that seeks to make it easier for businesses to offer retirement plans and for individuals to save for retirement. The Family Savings Act (H.... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/26/2018
With the House of Representatives poised to take up the second round of tax reform, a couple of changes have been made to the retirement section of the legislation.On Sept. 25, House Ways and Means... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 9/14/2018
Two U.S. Senators (including Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee) have introduced legislation to address some of the challenges... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/14/2018
Following a day-long and occasionally contentious markup session, on Sept. 13 the House Ways & Means Committee approved on party-line votes three tax bills as part of the Tax Reform 2.0 push... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/13/2018
As consideration of Tax Reform 2.0 begins in the U.S. House of Representatives, the congressional Joint Tax Committee (JTC) revenue tables with estimates about the impact of the provisions on tax... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/11/2018
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) has released the details of his tax reform 2.0 legislation, and it includes significant retirement savings changes, including multiple... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 9/7/2018
Building on last year’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) has released a preview of Tax Reform 2.0 – and it contains retirement provisions.On... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 8/1/2018
Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would expand the ability of certain retirement plan sponsors to correct inadvertent compliance errors under the IRS’s Employee Plan... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 7/31/2018
Conventional wisdom suggests that chances are slim that retirement policy legislation will be enacted in the remaining days of the legislative calendar going into the mid-term elections, but this... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 7/30/2018
Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would give any worker not currently covered by an employer-sponsored retirement plan access to a new type of retirement savings account.The... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 7/26/2018
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed two bills that enhance – and seek to expand the use of health savings accounts.Perhaps more significantly, the bills – H.R. 6199 (115) and H.R. 6311 (115... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 7/25/2018
Building on the tax cuts enacted last year as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, released a "Tax Reform 2.0" framework July... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 7/20/2018
It’s said that the devil is in the details – and indeed, bipartisan legislation that claims to lower barriers for small plan adoption might do so at the expense of participants.The Small Business... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 7/18/2018
Two Republican and two Democratic senators have introduced a package of bills that would make “needed reforms” to improve retirement and economic security for individuals and families.Citing reports... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 7/16/2018
A bipartisan bill that its sponsors say will provide greater flexibility and access to small business employees and their employers seeking to utilize SIMPLE plans as an option for saving for... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 7/13/2018
With concerns about healthcare costs looming large for American workers, a key congressional committee just took a major step to boost health savings accounts.The powerful House Ways and Means... Read More
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