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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plans - design Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines American Workers Shifting Their Plans and Expectations for Retirement (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Another Question is Answered in the Who's the Employer Q&A Column Can Ford's Lump-Sum Buyout Technique Work for Other Pension Plan Sponsors? Employers Can Have a Meaningful Impact on Employee Retirement Readiness Is Stock Market Recovery Providing Light at the End of the Tunnel for State and Local Pensions? Getting Young Workers to Save: Selling Confidence in the Future Retirement Plan Evaluation Evolves to Include Participant Investment Performance Ex-Government Officials Refuse to Cooperate with Delphi Pension Probe 401(k)s Making Lifetime Monthly Payments Might Be Future of Retirement Design Longtime Chief of Colorado State Pension Plans Resigns, Calls 401(k) Savings Model a 'Failure' Retirement Readiness Crisis Spurs Interest in Government-Managed Pension Plans for Participating Private Employers [Opinion] Text of Letter to Congress by American Benefits Council and Others, Urging DB Funding Interest Rate Stabilization (PDF) 401(k) Option Still a Sore Point in Kansas Public Employees Retirement System Talks Research Supports Limits on Number of Concurrent Loans from a 401(k) Plan Examining Income Replacement During Retirement in a DC Plan System (PDF) Managing Disability Risks in an Environment of Individual Responsibility (PDF) Drastic Ohio Public Pension Overhaul Biggest in State History Use of Voter-Approved Initiative to Scale Back Pension Benefits Wins First Court Test in California Providence Pension Reforms Will Save $19 Million Over the Next Year Federal Government Rolling Out Roth Option to 3.3 Million Employees This Week Reviewing Your 401(k) Plan's Hardship Distribution Procedures [Opinion] Text of Comments by ASPPA on Use of 401(k) Plan Forfeitures as Safe Harbor Contributions Arizona Public Workers to Be Reimbursed for Increased Pension Contributions Chicago Mayor Proposes Freeze in Pension Cost-of-Living-Adjustments, Wants to Raise Retirement Age A False Objection When Public Employers Consider a Switch from DB Plan to DC Plan: 'GASB Won't Let Me' (PDF) Can Part-Time Retirement Save the U.S. Postal Service? Buyout Offer is Risky Gamble for Ford's Pension Plan Pension Funding Index, April 2012 (PDF) IRS Page on Correcting Plan Errors: VCP Submission Kits for Pre-Approved Plans [Opinion] 401(k)s Are Too Risky for Retirement N.Y. State Pension Comptroller Continues Criticism of 401(k) Option for Public Employees Employee Benefits Are Good for Employers, Too Federal Employees Would Pay More for Pensions Under House Bill 'Institutionalizing' DC Plans: Reasons Why and Methods How (PDF) California Counties Deciding to Stop 'Picking Up' Employee Pension Contributions Will San Jose and San Diego Voters Approve Pension Changes Lowering Future Accruals? States Scaling Back Worker Pensions to Save Money Virginia Governor Wants Mandatory Employee Contribution Requirement for Legislators' Pensions Broken ARC, Broken Promises: Underfunded Public Pension Plans Another Reason for Offering Annuity-Type Distributions From 401(k) Plans: Cognitive Impairment of Older Participants When Should Workers Take a Pension Buyout? Road Trip: Traversing the Country in a Yellow VW Bus to Advocate 401(k) Reform Kansas Senate Endorses New Cash Balance Plan for State Employees [Opinion] Text of Comments by Eight Women's Organizations and the Pension Rights Center on Proposed IRS Regs for Lifetime Retirement Income Options (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Notice Suggests Changes to Normal Retirement Age Rules for Governmental Plans (PDF) Avoiding Surprises in Pension Contribution Liability: How Public Employers Can Anticipate and Evaluate 'Pension Risk' (PDF) [Guidance Overview] 'Unrelated Business Taxable Income' Did Not Spoil Tax-Exempt Organization's Exemption from Excise Tax on Plan Asset Reversion [Opinion] ERIC Offers Recommendations to Improve Treasury Lifetime Income Guidance First Quarter 2012 Pension Plan Funded Status Experience (PDF) [Opinion] Text of Comments by American Benefits Council to IRS on Proposed Regs on Longevity Annuity Contracts (PDF) [Opinion] Text of Comments by American Benefits Council to IRS on Proposed Regs on Modifications to Minimum Present Value Requirements for Partial Annuity Distribution Options under DB Plans (PDF) [Opinion] Text of Comments by ASPPA on Proposed Modifications to Minimum Present Value Regs for Partial Annuity Distribution Options under DB Plans Louisiana Legislators Decide Switch from DB to 401(k) for State Employees Might Be More Expensive Overall Managing the Volatility of Defined Benefit Plan Funded Ratios and Contributions Risks and Rewards of Opening a Lump-Sum Distribution Option to Already-Terminated Pension Plan Participants [Official Guidance] Did Your DB Plan Miss the April 30, 2012 EGTRRA Amendment Deadline? IRS Web Site Describes Correction Needed Taking Auto-Enrollment One Step Further: Bill Would Provide Auto-Increase in Employee Contributions by Federal Employees [Opinion] Text of ICI Comments on Proposed IRS Regs Under Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Financial Regulators Clarify Reg Z and Compensation Rules as Applied to Retirement Plan Contributions Wyoming Might Not Be Finished with Changes to Retirement Plan for State Employees 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)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. 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