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The BenefitsLink Newsletter This issue sponsored by EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com Would your company like to sponsor an issue? January 27 and 28, 2000 Top Stories - Retirement Plans Hedge Funds Face Competition For Pension Money news.excite.com [More like this] freeERISA.com Web Site Now Includes Governmental Plan and 11-K Info freeERISA.com [More like this] APPWP Comments on DOL Overtime Pay Opinion re Stock Option Profits Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans [More like this] Proposed Treasury regulations on qualified transportation fringe benefits Internal Revenue Service     Text format     PDF format Betting Pool May Be No Win for State Pension Fund Workers Yahoo! News [More like this] IRS Revenue Ruling 2000-8 - automatic 401(k) contributions by employees OK Internal Revenue Service [More like this] State of New Jersey Pension Fund Divests From Alleged Slave Stock Yahoo! Finance [More like this] Exacerbating Inequities in Pension Benefits: An Analysis of The Pension Provisions in The Tax Bill Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, orig. pub. October 1999 [More like this] Top Stories - Health and Welfare Plans OSHA Exempts Home Offices Washington Post [More like this] U.S. Uninsured Re-emerge as Political Issue CCH [More like this] Lawmakers Offer $70B Health Plan Los Angeles Times [More like this] Lawmakers Introduce $70 Billion Health Insurance Plan Fox News [More like this] Republicans Vow Quick Action On Patients' Rights Bill Yahoo! News [More like this] The Problems with Punitive Damages in Lawsuits against Managed-Care Organizations New England Journal of Medicine [More like this] New Recommended Links About Employee Benefits Maximum Safe Retirement Plan Withdrawal Rate During Retirement John P. Greaney [More like this] ManagedCareSurvival.com [More like this] National Academy for State Health Policy NASHP [More like this] United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America's View on Cash Balance Pension Plans [More like this] Pensions eGroup: Pension Policy Mailing List Centre for Pensions and Social Insurance [More like this] The 401(k) Participation Loan Clark Mitchell Enterprises [More like this] The Retire Early Home Page John P. Greaney [More like this] Thrift Savings Plan for Federal Employees Web Site [More like this] Copyright 2000 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. Feel free to forward this email to friends, colleagues or clients, if no fee is paid to you and the email is forwarded in its entirety. Thanks! BenefitsLink is a trademark of BenefitsLink.com, Inc., published by Dave Baker with much help from Mary Hall and lots of friends. To subscribe (free): visit https://benefitslink.com/newsletter/ - or the person desiring to subscribe can send an email to listmanager@postmastergeneral.com, with this as the subject of the email: subscribe benefitslink We have an online archive of prior issues.

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