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Eight Updates for Your Disability Claims Procedures

Lois Gleason, CEBS

29 Mar 201829 Mar 2018

Time to get your Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans in shape . . . there are no more delays for required new disability claims procedures! After postponing the original effective date of January 1, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor […]

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Mental Health and Substance Abuse Rights: What Employers Need to Know

Lois Gleason, CEBS

05 Jul 201705 Jul 2017

Employees are increasingly aware of their rights to mental health and substance abuse treatment through employer-sponsored health plans. Are you aware of what your plan needs to do? Below are resources to help. The U.S. government is educating individuals on the Mental […]

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Trump’s First 100 Days: Impact on Employee Benefits

Anne Patterson

09 May 2017

If you were presented with 100 days to work with, what would you try to accomplish? Train for a marathon? Cook your way through Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking: Volume 1? Maybe it’s finally watching all five seasons of Breaking […]

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Talking Benefits Episode 5: Washington Strikes Again

Staff

04 May 201730 May 2017

It’s May 4th and, to some, it just means you’re one day closer to the weekend. But for Star Wars fans like Talking Benefits host, Julie Stich, add one little preposition to that date and it becomes an unofficial, international holiday. May […]

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Does Your Benefit Appeal Process Need a Tune Up?

Anne Patterson

28 Feb 201728 Feb 2017

Does your benefit appeal process feel like it’s on cruise control? It might be time for a tune up. In light of an increase in participant litigation and heightened DOL enforcement efforts, it is imperative that plans ensure their procedures and policies […]

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DOL Wants to Hear From You! Share Your Thoughts on Form 5500, Now!

Julie Stich, CEBS

16 Sep 201621 Sep 2016

Note: The DOL announced on September 20, 2016, that the deadline for submitting comments has been extended to December 5, 2016. Last week I had the opportunity, along with a few Foundation members, to meet with Ian Dingwall, Chief Accountant for the […]

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DOL Gives Leeway in Participant-Level Plan Disclosure Due Dates

Lois Gleason, CEBS

24 Jun 201524 Jun 2015

About Lois Mathis-Gleason, CEBS Manager, Reference/Research Services at the International Foundation Defined contribution pension plan administrators now have a two-month grace period for issuing annual participant-level plan disclosures. The term “at least annually thereafter” now means “at least once in any 14-month […]

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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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FMLA’s Same-Sex Spousal Leave Rights Expanded

Julie Stich, CEBS

12 Mar 2015

Two friends of mine, both men, have been in a loving and committed relationship for several years. But until they got in their car and drove across the border to Iowa last October to get married, they weren’t afforded the spousal rights […]