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The 2018 ASPPA Annual Conference kicks off Sunday, Oct. 21 at the Gaylord National Resort at the National Harbor, located in Oxon Hill, Md., just outside our nation’s capital. We'll be there from the start until the conference ends on Wednesday, Oct. 24, reporting on the general sessions, workshops... READ MORE

ERISA was enacted to provide national protections for participants in employer-sponsored retirement plans – but proposed legislation would undermine those protections. A bill introduced in the Senate in July would create a new type of “open” multiple employer plan (MEP), an employee benefit plan... READ MORE

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a comprehensive report on the regulatory agenda of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) for fall 2018. Proposed Rules The OMB lists the following as proposed rules the PBGC is now considering: Valuation Assumptions and Methods:... READ MORE

The IRS is providing additional relief for taxpayers in any area the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has designated as a major disaster area in the wake of Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael. Among the steps the IRS has taken is to further extend the Oct. 15 extension... READ MORE

As you can see, the ASPPA website looks different – cleaner, more modern, and certainly better when viewed on a mobile device, as a growing number of members do. While we have retained nearly all of the resources previously available on the old site, we have done some reorganizing, and retitled... READ MORE

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 67 million Americans will increase 2.8% in 2019, the Social Security Administration announced Oct. 11. The 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to beneficiaries in January. For SSI... READ MORE

The tail end of hurricane season — and more specifically the disastrous flooding of Hurricane Florence — brins to mind my last serious brush with nature’s fury. It was 2011, and we had just dropped our youngest off for his first semester of college in North Carolina, stopped off long enough in... READ MORE

Many countries consistently receive high rankings for their retirement systems, but does that mean they also have the happiest participants? A new report delves deeper into the drivers of happiness in the context of retirement and finds that that’s not necessarily the case. State Street Global... READ MORE

Rep. Richie Neal (D-MA), the ranking Democrat on the House Ways & Means Committee, and the man in line to become chairman of that powerful committee, has cited three priorities on which he even thinks he might align with President Trump, and two of them — shoring up retirement savings and... READ MORE