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A&O Shearman

UK Pensions: DC trustee agenda update—August 2025

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DC pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on your next...more

Dickinson Wright

Both Employers and Participants Benefit from New IRS Guidance on Correcting Inadvertent Benefit Overpayments

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Retirement plan administration mistakes require difficult conversations with participants, especially when the mistake involves an overpayment.  Changes in the law, specifically, SECURE 2.0 and IRS Notice 2024-77, give plan...more

A&O Shearman

Pensions in dispute - November 2024

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Welcome to our quarterly pensions litigation briefing, designed to help pensions managers identify key risks in scheme administration, and trustees update their knowledge and understanding. This briefing highlights recent...more

Verrill

Why Is There No IRS Correction Program for Non-Governmental 457(b) Plans?

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This post examines excess deferrals under non-governmental 457(b) plans, including the approved method for correcting them and the penalty for failing to correct them, to make the case for a change in IRS policy on correcting...more

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Pensions: Joint DB & DC trustee agenda update - April 2024

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings, and to support the legal update item on...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 26 February 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: Finance Bill...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 06 November 2023

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: TPO’s first...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 23 October 2023

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: TPR blog post on...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Better Than a Snow Day: The PBGC Provides One-Time Section 4010 Reporting Waiver

Acknowledging uncommon market conditions, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced Technical Update Number 23-1 (the Update), which provides a one-time waiver of certain reporting requirements for some...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Final Changes Announced to Forms 5500 and 5500-SF

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it has finalized, together with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the third and final round of revisions to the Form 5500 Annual...more

Verrill

Alternatives for Sponsors of Defined Benefit Pension Plans

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For decades, it was common for employers to maintain employer-funded defined benefit pension plans (“DB Plans” or “Plans”) to provide retirement benefits to their employees. In recent years, DB Plans have become increasingly...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Never let anyone assume you’re embezzling

I know two retirement plan providers in Federal prison for embezzling retirement plan assets. They did the crime, they are doing the time. However, there are times when people haven’t embezzled, but they have done enough...more

Hogan Lovells

The Pensions Regulator's new powers: what lenders need to know

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The Act introduces two new offences – conduct risking accrued DB benefits and avoidance of employer debt, as explained below. Each offence is punishable by up to seven years' imprisonment and / or an unlimited fine. There are...more

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New offences and powers for the Pensions Regulator: what employers and trustees should know – update

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The passage of the Pension Schemes Act 2021 (the Act) into the statute books has received press coverage far beyond the usual pension industry commentary. New criminal offences and civil penalties, plus increased powers for...more

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New criminal offences and unlimited fines: what employers need to know about the Pensions Regulator's new powers (UPDATED)

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After the Carillion and BHS debacles, the Pensions Regulator (tPR) announced it was going to be “clearer, quicker and tougher”. The new Pension Schemes Act 2021 (the Act), which received Royal Assent on 11 February 2021,...more

Fisher Phillips

July 2021: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Are Your COBRA Notices Sufficient to Avert a Costly Challenge?

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While the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (“COBRA”) continuation coverage subsidy requirements imposed by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 are at the forefront of employers’ minds, recent litigation trends...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

About That Pension Check… A Miscalculation Case With Broader Implications

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently addressed several issues of first impression in Bafford v. Northrop Grumman (9th Cir. April 15, 2021), a lawsuit involving retirees who received vastly overstated pension benefit...more

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New criminal offences and unlimited fines: what employers need to know about the Pensions Regulator's new powers

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After the Carillion and BHS debacles, the Pensions Regulator (tPR) announced it was going to be "clearer, quicker and tougher". The new Pension Schemes Bill (the Bill) currently going through Parliament will give tPR...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE Act Testing Relief for Closed/Frozen Defined Benefit Plans

In recent years, many defined benefit (“DB”) pension plan sponsors have taken action to limit ongoing coverage and benefit accruals of their DB plans.  Over time these plans may have difficulty continuing to satisfy the...more

Williams Mullen

PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Plan Administrators’ 2019 Year-End Checklist

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On the latest episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, Ellie Clendenin, Nona Massengill, and Brydon DeWitt discuss some end of year benefit plan considerations as 2020 approaches. ...more

K&L Gates LLP

An Overview of Legal, Regulatory and Plan Design Considerations for States

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Americans are facing a retirement crisis. The foundation for building a secure retirement — Social Security, employer-provided pensions, and personal savings — has been weakened because most private sector companies no longer...more

King & Spalding

September and October 2015 Filing and Notice Deadlines for Qualified Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans

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Employers and plan sponsors must comply with numerous filing and notice deadlines for their retirement and health and welfare plans. Failure to comply with these deadlines can result in costly penalties. To avoid such...more

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August and September 2015 Filing and Notice Deadlines for Qualified Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans

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Employers and plan sponsors must comply with numerous filing and notice deadlines for their retirement and health and welfare plans. Failure to comply with these deadlines can result in costly penalties. To avoid such...more

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New Plant Shutdown Rules for Defined Benefit Retirement Plans

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The 2015 omnibus appropriations bill (the "Omnibus Bill"), signed by President Obama on December 16, 2014, made significant changes to the "substantial cessation of operations" rules (also known as the "plant shutdown" rules)...more

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