The IRS on May 14 issued the 2026 cumulative list of changes in plan qualification requirements for pre-approved defined contribution plans. What changes are contained in Notice 2026-34?

Bipartisan legislation that would make it even easier for small businesses to cover the costs of starting a retirement plan for their employees has been unveiled.

Saving for retirement in Maine just got a boost. A new measure was just enacted that expands the Pinetree State’s program that provides retirement plan coverage for employees of private-sector ...

Bipartisan legislation supported by the American Retirement Association is before the House and Senate that would allow qualified charitable distributions from employer-sponsored defined contribution ...

In the absence of final regulations regarding the SECURE 2.0 requirement to furnish annual pension benefit statements on paper as well as related electronic delivery safe harbors, the Department of ...

One-participant plans and foreign plans use the Form 5500-EZ, Annual Return of A One-Participant (Owners/Partners and Their Spouses) Retirement Plan or A Foreign Plan, to report concerning the most ...

Contributions to 401(k)s made modest gains in 2023 as employers and participants reversed the trend of the year before, when they contributed less to their plans than they had in 2021. This according ...

The scope and reach of RetireReady NJ — the state-run program that provides retirement plan coverage to private-sector employees whose employers do not — have been expanded. Before, New Jersey Secure ...

The SECURE Act, enacted Dec. 20, 2019, introduced important relief provisions for closed defined benefit plans, including eased requirements for 410(b) coverage testing, 401(a)(4) nondiscrimination ...

The PBGC has updated its web page that provides information relevant to plan sponsors and plan professionals meeting reporting obligations and complying with PBGC requirements.

When companies are involved in a merger and one of them has a retirement plan that has received special financial assistance, does that fact have any relevance? The PBGC sheds some light.

The ranking Democrat of the House Ways and Means Committee has asked the Government Accountability Office to examine how investments in private credit could affect retirement plans.