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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plans - design Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Philadelphia Confronts the Cost of Employee Benefits General Motors Using Huge Pension Fund in Way It Never Intended [Guidance Overview] Plan Loans: Plan Loan in Excess of 50% Vested Account Balance Text of California Governor's Pension Reform Proposal (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Proposed Reliance Regulations that Permit Suspension of 401(k) Non-Elective Safe Harbor Contributions Big Surprise: Even the AARP Decides to Suspend Its 401(k) Match for at Least Nine Months [Opinion] Obama Retirement Plan Places Primary Responsibility for Retirement Saving on Households (PDF) Los Angeles City Council Approves Early Retirement Plan Despite Opposition Benefit Cuts Possible for Future Iowa Public Employee Retirees IRS Shoots Down New Roth Ploy: Recent Ruling Finds That Transactions Moving Income Were Similar to Those Outlawed Earlier [Guidance Overview] IRS Allows Struggling Employers to Reduce or Suspend Nonelective Contributions to 401(k) Plans House Lawmakers Revive Federal Retirement Reforms That Were Stripped Out of Tobacco Legislation Median Cost for Defined Contribution Plans Now Exceeds Cost for Defined Benefit Plans Most Small Employers Would Face Low Costs to Implement Automatic IRAs RothRetirement.com Site Educates on the 2010 Roth IRA Conversion Option Business Group Presses Los Angeles City Council for Details on Early-Retirement Proposal Company-Sponsored Retirement Plans More Important Than Ever Consumers Should Take 401(k) Plan Loans Instead of Consumer Loans, Study Contends Lawmakers Plan Push to Reform 401(k) Plans Pension Reform in the Aftermath of Enron: Congress' Failure to Deliver the Promise of Secure Retirement 401(K) Plan Participants The Death Knell of Traditional Defined Benefit Plans: Avoiding a Race to the 401(k) Bottom [Guidance Overview] New Rules Allowing Employers to Suspend Nonelective Contributions to Safe Harbor Plans Due to Business Hardship (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Mid-Year Elimination of Safe Harbor Non-Elective Contributions The Economic Crisis Has Accelerated the Decline of Defined Benefit Plans in the U.S. and U.K. Cost of Civil Service Retirement System Retirement Plan Fix Pegged at $40 Million Over 10 Years Rethinking 401(k) Plan Design for Challenging Times (PDF) Executive Summary: Effect of the Economic Crisis on Employee Attitudes Toward Retirement: Retirement Timing Employers Cutting Back 401(k) Plans, According to Study Benefits for Ex-City Employees Examined in San Diego Orange County, California, Workers Vote to Change Pension Plan, Retirement Age [Guidance Overview] New Tax Rules Will Give More People Access to a Roth IRA, One of Best Savings Plans for Later Life [Opinion] Jottings from a Conference on Plan Designs The West Virginia Teachers' Retirement System: DC to DB to DC?Then Back Again Bridging Employees' Retirement Income Gap with Income Annuities: An Employer's Guide Four New Mexico Public Employee Unions Sue to Stop 'Wage Tax' for Pensions Tax Proposal Has Silver Lining for IRAs, Social Security Massachusetts Governor Exults in Signing Pension Reform Bill [Opinion] What's Wrong with the Current 401(k) System - and How It Can Be Salvaged [Guidance Overview] Plan Provision Relieving Trustee of Duty to Monitor and Collect Contributions Is Void as Against Public Policy International Pension Issues in a Global Economy: A Survey and Assessment of IRS' Role in Breaking Down the Barriers (PDF) [Opinion] Groom Comments on Proposed IRS 403(b) Prototype Plan Program (PDF) Choosing Between 401(k) and 403(b) Plans Tobacco Bill Includes Thrift Savings Plan Changes DC Spending Now Ahead of DB Spending, According to Mercer Study Borrowing from 401(k) Plan May Have Positive Effects for Some Participants New Mexico State Workers Sue Over Pension Changes [Guidance Overview] Section 403(b) Plan Participants Need to Correct Defective Contract Exchanges by June 30 [Guidance Overview] Loans on 401(k) Plans a Tax Trap [Guidance Overview] 403(b) Plan or 401(k) Plan: How to Decide Bill Advances with Thrift Savings Plan Reforms, But Not Sick Leave Fix [Opinion] Groom Comments on Proposed IRS 403(b) Prototype Plan Program Massachusetts House and Senate Agree on Plan to Curb State Pension Excesses Many 401(k) Sponsors Suspending Matching Contributions Are Funding Defined Benefit Pension Plans (PDF) [Opinion] Time to Drop DROPs? Alice-in-Wonderland Math Can't Work for Deferred Option Retirement Plans Legislation Provides Incentives for Annuitizing Retirement Plan Distributions IRS and DOL Priorities: Spring 2009 Regulatory Agenda Dropping Your 401(k) Match? Watch Employees Drop the Plan Trade Groups/Providers Comment on 403(b) Prototype Program [Guidance Overview] 403(b) Annual Additions 403(b) Changes Mean Altered Provider Landscape Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2009 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. 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