Employee Benefits

Fertility Treatment Benefits as Excepted Benefits Coming for Employers

Anne Newhouse, CEBS
 

A new fact sheet from the White House discusses a “New Benefit Option” for employers to offer fertility benefits to employees in the future as a standalone plan, regardless of if benefits for fertility treatments are also included under an employer health plan.

Freezing the Frame: Supreme Court Withdrawal Liability Case to Address Timing of Actuarial Assumptions

Guest Contributor
 

In the first withdrawal liability case to reach the Supreme Court in more than three decades, the Court will consider a statutory question, whose answer will determine pension plans have the flexibility to update actuarial assumptions after year end.