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Key lawmakers are considering reductions in support for federal workers' pensions as they search for cuts that can clear the way for an increase in the national debt limit.

The U.S. Supreme Court has significantly narrowed the grounds an employee can use to sue for additional pension benefits based on errors in a plan’s summary plan description (SPD).

A little-known rule says that anyone who opts out of Medicare Part A also forfeits all past and future Social Security retirement benefits.

Of all the latest regulations, those concerning 401(k) fee disclosures have been the most talked about.

Should electronic disclosure requirements for employee benefit plans be changed? The answer is yes. And no. And maybe so.

The Cuomo administration announced plans Tuesday to make permanent the recent restrictions on who can do business with the $141 billion state pension fund.

Senior members of Congress, both Democrat and Republican, have signed letters calling for a delay or end to the Labor Department’s effort to rewrite the 5-part retirement plan fiduciary definition that deals with those who sell investment retirement accounts.

Benefit plan managers seem to be divided on whether distributing more plan notices electronically would have any effect on plan participants’ inability to find, summon the energy to read, or understand the notices.