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The BenefitsLink Newsletter This issue sponsored by EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com Would your company like to sponsor an issue? February 9 and 10, 2000 Top Stories - Retirement Plans Avoiding The Hard Decisions: The President's Retirement Savings Account Program Heritage Foundation [More like this] Why Critics of Social Security Personal Retirement Accounts Are Wrong Heritage Foundation [More like this] Administration's FY 2001 Budget Proposes New $200 Million Tax Increase on S Corp ESOPs The ESOP Association [More like this] Final Regulations on Electronic Transmission of Certain Distribution Notices and Elections, Distributions of Summary Notices cybERISA.com [More like this] ESOP - the Easy Option The Hindu [More like this] Pension and Retirement Savings Provisions of the President's FY 2001 Budget (PDF) Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans [More like this] IRS Makes 401(k) Safe Harbor Rules More Usable Watson Wyatt [More like this] Cash Balance Conversions: Whither Wear-Away? Watson Wyatt [More like this] Summary of Tax Provisions Contained in the President's Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Proposal (PDF) Joint Committee on Taxation [More like this] New Form 5500 Forms Clarify Reporting Rules for Defaulted Participant Loans cybERISA.com [More like this] IBM Veteran Leads Pension Fight Poughkeepsie Journal [More like this] Employee Retirement Income Security Act and Managed Care: Current Issues and Their Impact on Medical Practice Medscape, free registration required [More like this] Senate Bankruptcy Bill Includes Costly Tax Cuts That Could Harm Lower-Wage Workers Center for Budget and Policy Priorities [More like this] Employee Benefits Provisions in the Bankruptcy Reform Bill Passed by the Senate on February 2 BenefitsLink [More like this] The Pension Professionals, Inc. Case Professional Practice Insurance Brokers, Inc. [More like this] Top Stories - Health and Welfare Plans Congress: Map Needed on Patient Bill Los Angeles Times [More like this] Contagious HMO Myths a Public Health Threat Boston Globe [More like this] Managed Care Legislation Headed to Conference Committee Groom Law Group [More like this] No Health Reform Before 2001 PersonalMD.com [More like this] Lawmakers Defend Military Retirees New York Times, free registration required [More like this] An HMO Checkup Motley Fool [More like this] "Birthday Rule" Determines Whose Health Plan Covers Your Kids insure.com [More like this] Why Health Sites Make Me Sick ZDNet [More like this] H.R. 2990 Will Open Employers to Lawsuits, Warns APPWP Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans [More like this] Forthcoming IRS Bulletin May Affect Severance Pay Plans for Governmental and Tax-Exempt Employers Segal Company [More like this] ADP Acquires COBRA Administration Provider netBOA news.excite.com [More like this] REPAIR Team Sues UnitedHealth on RICO, ERISA Grounds news.excite.com [More like this] UnitedHealth Group Sued for Alleged Racketeering news.excite.com [More like this] Delta Employees Offered Nearly-Free Personal Computers as an Employee Benefit Atlanta Journal-Constitution [More like this] HMO Execs Debate How to Heal Their Image -- and Industry Business Week [More like this] Patients' Rights Again on Congressional Horizon Yahoo! News [More like this] Healthcare Reform may be Coming, but in Little Pieces Christian Science Monitor [More like this] New Recommended Links About Employee Benefits Section 404(c) Compliance Audit Checklist Snell & Willmer, L.L.P. [More like this] Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement National Bureau of Economic Research [More like this] The Impact on Older Workers of Cash Balance Pension Plan Conversions American Association of Retired Persons [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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