As was foreshadowed in President Obama’s last State of the UnionAddress, retirement policy gets considerableattention in the White House’s fiscal year 2017 budget, releasedtoday.
Familiar initiatives that Congress previously has refused tofund, like a nearly comprehensive mandate that small employersauto-enroll workers in IRAs, again appears in President Obama’sbudget, as it has in his seven previous budget proposals.
But this year’s budget also includes new, specific retirementpolicy initiatives, including the creation of “open” multipleemployer plans, a call for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporationto raise premiums for troubled multiemployer plans while keepingpremiums in PBGC’s single-employer plan flat, and $6.5 million inmoney for pilot state-run 401(k) plans.
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