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MPRA Guidance—What Does It Mean?

Julie Stich, CEBS

13 Jul 201515 Jul 2015

In mid-June, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) released their first round of guidance relating to the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act (MPRA) provisions on benefit suspensions (reductions) and pension partitions. MPRA is a complex law, and the […]

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Retirement Plans Increase Security

Julie Stich, CEBS

22 Apr 201523 Apr 2015

Workers and retirees in the United States are saying they’re a bit more confident about their prospects in retirement—the confidence numbers are up in 2015 since hitting lows between 2009 and 2013—even though there aren’t many signs that they’re taking steps to […]

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Your Annual Funding Notice May Need Tweaking

Lois Gleason, CEBS

19 Mar 2015

Defined benefit pension plan administrators: You might need to change your annual funding notice. The Department of Labor published a final rule in the Federal Register on February 2, 2015 clarifying the requirements under ERISA 101(f) that administrators of defined benefit plans, […]

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Ontario Moves Forward on Pension Plan With ORPP

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

19 Feb 201502 Mar 2016

Enhancing the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is expected to be an issue in October’s federal election, but in the meantime Ontario is moving forward with an effort to create its own Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP). The Ontario Ministry of Finance released […]

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Which Benefits Where? A Regional Comparison

Justin Held, CEBS

12 Jan 201511 Jan 2016

By: Justin Held, CEBS Do organizations in the West offer more generous health care benefits? Are those in the South more likely to offer automatic features in their defined contribution plans? The International Foundation’s Employee Benefits Survey 2014, the fourth offering in […]

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Aiming to Understand Target Benefit Plans

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

23 Sep 201417 Jan 2015

By: Kathy Bergstrom Target benefit plans (TBPs) remain a hot topic in the discussion around pension reform in Canada. They’ve been around for many years in the form of multi-employer pension plans, but now the federal government and many provinces are considering […]