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- DOL Issues Additional FAQs on Schedule C for 2009 Form 5500
- From the October 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has issued 25 additional FAQs concerning the Schedule C disclosures for 2009 and later plan years. This guidance supplements a set of 40 FAQs issued last year. (See our Checkpoint Newsstand article.) Generally, both pension plans and those ...
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- DOL Releases New FAQs on All-Electronic Form 5500 Filing Under EFAST2
- From the September 24, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL’s EFAST website now contains 45 FAQs addressing EFAST2, the all-electronic filing system for Form 5500 that is scheduled to be available beginning January 2010. As background, final DOL regulations issued in 2007 require that all ...
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- OPM Proposes Long-Term Care and Leave Benefits for Domestic Partners of Federal Employees
- From the September 17, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- In June 2009, President Obama directed that benefits for federal employees be expanded to include same-sex domestic partners to the extent consistent with federal law. The federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has now issued proposed regulations that would (...
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- DOL Staff Members Provide Informal Views on SPDs/SMMs and Issues Under the Davis-Bacon And Service Contract Acts
- From the September 03, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association has reported on its May 7, 2009 Q&A session with DOL staff members. Highlights include unofficial, nonbinding remarks about these welfare plan topics: (1) SPD requirements ...
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- DOL Approves First Commercial Software Vendor for All-Electronic Form 5500 Filing Under EFAST2
- From the August 27, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has begun compiling its list of companies that have developed “approved software” for use in preparing and submitting Form 5500 for the 2009 plan year under the new all-electronic EFAST2 system. As background, DOL final ...
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- EBSA Issues Guidance on Fiduciary Duties in Response to Alleged Abuses Involving the Madoff Investment Firm
- From the February 12, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued a brief statement on the duties of employee benefit plan fiduciaries in light of alleged abuses involving Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. According to the guidance, recent events ...
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- White House Asks Agencies to Delay Publication, Effective Dates of Regulations Pending Review
- From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- On Inauguration Day, President Obama’s Chief of Staff issued a memorandum to executive department agencies and heads, advising them of the President’s plan for managing the Federal regulatory process so as to give his appointees and ...
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- 2008 Form M-1, Including Self-Compliance Tool, Made Available by the DOL With Few Changes From the Previous Year
- From the January 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has issued the 2008 Form M-1, Report for Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWAs) and Certain Entities Claiming Exception (ECEs). Subject to certain limited exceptions, this annual report must be filed with the ...
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- Advance Form 5500 for 2008 Plan Year Has Been Released
- From the December 04, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL, IRS, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation have released advance, informational copies of the Form 5500, Schedules, and Instructions to be used by employee benefits plans reporting on 2008 plan years (generally, those are plan years beginning in 2008 ...
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- DOL Issues Field Guidance in FAQ Format on the Bonding Requirement for ERISA Plans
- From the December 04, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- ERISA requires all persons, including fiduciaries, who handle funds or other property of an employee benefit plan to be bonded (unless they are covered by an exemption) to protect ERISA plans against loss due to fraud or dishonesty by plan ...
