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• 5/30: Welcome to new sponsor Benefits Management, Inc., an independent actuarial consulting firm providing consulting services and administrative services to small and medium size employers (one employee to 3,000 employees) with qualified pension and/or profit sharing plans. Visit their Web site at http://net2.netacc.net/~bmgt/
• 5/29: Thompson Publishing Group's pension and benefits publications provide news and regulatory information about topics including fringe benefit rules, self-insuring health benefits, IRS and COBRA rules, pension, flex and 401(k) plans, Form 5500 tips and more!
• Coordination of Benefits Handbook
• Employer's Guide To Fringe Benefit Rules
• Employer's Guide To Self-Insuring Health Benefits
• Employer's Handbook: Complying With IRS Employee Benefits Rules
• Employer's Handbook: Mandated Health Benefits -- The COBRA Guide
• Employer's Health Benefits Bulletin
• Flex Plan Handbook
• The 401(k) Handbook
• Guide To Assigning & Loaning Benefit Plan Money
• Pension Plan Fix-It Handbook
• 5/29: New glossary definitions for Summary Plan Description and Summary of Material Modification
• 5/29: Plan assets definition added to glossary
• 5/28: Temple University's Actuarial Science Homepage
• 5/24: Now shipping: the new Qualified Domestic Relations Order Answer Book, from Panel Publishers!
• 5/23: New address for the Benefits Forum discussion group, sponsored by HR Headquarters (Note: you must sign in first at HR Headquarters; no charge).
• 5/23: The IRS COBRA Employee Benefit Continuation Coverage Examination User's Guide is discussed in an Alert newsletter from W. F. Corroon (No. 143, April 1996)
• 5/23: Welcome to new sponsor FinStat, specializing in employee benefit statements!
• 5/22: Explore the benefits publications of Thompson Publishing Group
• 5/17: Blair Brininger, P.C. ERISA Newsletter for April 1996
• 5/17: Check out the new Web site for the National Senior Citizens Law Center!
• 5/15: 'Smo stuff from the good folks at the PBGC:
• PBGC Regulations
• PBGC Technical Updates
• 5/15: PBGC Issues 1996 Model Participant Notice, for use by certain underfunded defined benefit pension plans to notify participants of the plan's funding status and the limits of the PBGC's guarantee of pension benefits. Plans with 100 or fewer participants must begin distributing notices for 1996; plans with more than 100 notices had to begin sending out notices for 1995.
• 5/15: PBGC Publications
• Your Guaranteed Pension
• FACTS -- Retirement Protection Act of 1994
• FACTS -- PBGC's Missing Participants Program
• FACTS -- PBGC's Early Warning Program
• FACTS -- Pension Reversions: Removing Pension Dollars
• 5/14: ERISA Audit Report, April 1996 issue, from Reish & Luftman
• 5/13: The Effect of The Family & Medical Leave Act on the Operation of Cafeteria Plans by W F Corroon
• 5/13: Nonqualified Deferred Compensation and FICA by W F Corroon

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