The Oregon State Treasury has announced that OregonSaves, the state-run auto-IRA program for private-sector workers, has been expanded to allow individual Oregonians, such as self-employed or gig... Read More
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State Auto-IRA Plans
BY John Iekel | 10/2/2018
The Oregon Retirement Savings Board on Oct. 9 will consider the recently proposed changes to the rules for OregonSaves, the state-run retirement savings program for private-sector workers in the... Read More
BY John Iekel | 9/14/2018
The Nutmeg State’s state-run retirement program for private-sector workers remains on hold as the Connecticut Retirement Security Authority (CRSA) seeks an executive director to run it.Legislation... Read More
BY John Iekel | 9/7/2018
The Oregon Retirement Savings Board (ORSB) reports that the Oregon State Treasury has filed a notice of proposed rulemaking that would create an option under which individuals could participate in... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/17/2018
Illinois’ mandatory auto-enrollment state-IRA program for private sector employers “may” have just become voluntary.Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner issued what’s called an amendatory veto Tuesday,... Read More
BY John Iekel | 8/15/2018
The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Board is set to approve the execution of contracts for program administration and investment management for the California Secure Choice Retirement... Read More
BY John Iekel | 8/6/2018
OregonSaves, the state-sponsored auto-IRA program for private-sector workers in the Beaver State, may expand the savings options available to those workers.A report issued Aug. 1 by the office of... Read More
BY John Iekel | 8/3/2018
The New Jersey Secure Choice Savings Program Act, a measure that would create an automatic enrollment payroll deduction IRA in the Garden State, is before the state Assembly and the state Senate. It... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 7/9/2018
The nation’s first state-run IRA program for private sector employees just celebrated its first year of operation. How’s it going?Though it’s now been a year, the OregonSaves program began with a... Read More
BY John Iekel | 6/15/2018
The Oregon Retirement Savings Board has provided an update on recent activities, implementation and future steps concerning the OregonSaves state-sponsored savings program for private sector... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 6/4/2018
California taxpayer advocates have challenged the Golden State’s nascent state-run retirement plan for private sector workers.The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of... Read More
BY John Iekel | 4/27/2018
The Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program, the state-run retirement savings vehicle for private sector employees in Illinois who do not have access to an employer-sponsored plan, is now being tested... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 4/3/2018
Advisors who work with employers in Oregon should be on the lookout for the next wave of OregonSaves registrations.Employers with 50-99 employees in Oregon will need to either register to facilitate... Read More
BY Ted Godbout | 4/3/2018
Following in the footsteps of several other states, the Empire State is moving forward with its own voluntary retirement savings program for employees who are not offered a plan through their... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 3/29/2018
An industry trade group has settled its lawsuit against the Oregon Retirement Savings Board – but the issue raised wouldn’t seem to be settled yet.The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) had filed a... Read More
BY Joseph A. Caruso, III | 3/26/2018
Wyoming Gov. Matthew H. Mead (R) has signed legislation (WY SF 116) creating a retirement income security task force to study the Equality State’s retirement preparedness and retirement savings... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 3/20/2018
The Washington State Department of Commerce on March 19 announced the launch of the state’s Retirement Marketplace, a virtual marketplace in which financial services firms will offer low-cost... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 3/13/2018
Another state-run IRA retirement plan for private sector workers is gearing up to go live.The investment board for California’s Secure Choice program (now renamed “CalSavers”) last week approved... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 3/5/2018
The first of the state-run retirement IRA programs for private sector workers to come online has topped the million-dollar asset threshold.As of March 1, 362 employers had registered to facilitate... Read More
BY John Iekel | 2/20/2018
The New Jersey Treasury Department is reviewing responses to its request for information (RFI) from private-sector firms to provide investment products for the Garden State's Small Business... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 1/29/2018
The nation’s first state-run retirement plan for private sector workers is picking up steam – but the opt-out rates are a bit of an eye-opener.As of Dec. 1, after five months of the pilot phase, the... Read More
BY John Iekel | 1/11/2018
Missouri is the latest state whose legislature has before it a measure that would establish a state-run program for employees whose employers do not offer a retirement plan. State Rep. Kip Kendrick,... Read More
BY John Iekel | 1/5/2018
The official launch of Washington State’s Small Business Retirement Marketplace “is drawing near,” Washington State Department of Commerce Marketplace Director Carolyn McKinnon has announced. The... Read More
BY John Iekel | 12/15/2017
Seattle workers whose employers do not offer a retirement plan will have access to one through the city if a proposal by Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) is enacted.On Oct. 10, then-Mayor Tim Burgess (D) sent... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 11/13/2017
The Nutmeg State’s state-run auto-IRA plan for private sector workers isn’t going to be ready for business on Jan. 1, 2018 – no matter what retirement plan vendors may have told you.In fact, Labor... Read More
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