The Trump Administration in a recent letter to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, encouraged deep cuts to the funding of the IRS and Department of Labor ...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is set to vote on the nomination of Janet Dhillon to serve as the next Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

Frank Bisignano, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration, was confirmed in that role by the Senate on May 6 in a 53-47 vote. Frank Bisignano, President Trump’s nominee to ...

The reach of the Maine Retirement Savings Program is one step closer to expanding. And as legislation that would accomplish that advances, a variety of parties have weighed in on the merits and ...

The EBSA Investigations Transparency Act ( H.R. 2869) introduced April 10 by Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) would require EBSA to submit an annual report to Congress providing a status update on its ...

The Massachusetts legislature may take another crack at establishing a Secure Choice program. Legislation that would have established such a program has not yet been enacted, but a new proposal to ...

The PBGC in its annual meeting with the American Bar Association Joint Committee on Employee Benefits concerning the agency's activity in FY 2023 reported record low reportable event filings. It also ...

What is top of mind for the American Retirement Association (ARA) this session of Congress? Will Hansen, the ARA’s Chief Government Affairs Officer, at the PSCA National Conference outlined the ARA’s ...

The SSFA was enacted on Jan. 5. To achieve that fairness, it repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The law is applicable to monthly benefits payable ...

Former Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration Lisa Gomez and high-profile ERISA attorney Fred Reish joined Hansen for the morning session, appropriately titled ...

The IRS has announced the health savings account (HSA) and high deductible health plan (HDHP) limits for 2026. The announcement came in IRS Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2025-19, which the IRS issued ...

First introduced in December 2022 and then again in October 2023, the Retirement Savings for Americans Act (RSAA) would establish a federal retirement plan that would include a matching contribution ...