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- Rise in 401(k) contribution limits helping to rescue retirement incomes.(Special Report)
- Byline: HARRIET TRAMER Internal Revenue Service changes that recently went into effect boosted the amount employees can contribute to their 401k plans and raised the "catch-up'' contributions, or supplemental sums, that people older than 50 Byline: HARRIET TRAMER Internal Revenue...
- Research articles 2005-06-27
- Looking back on 25 years of retirement savings.(Other Views)
- Byline: Paul Schott Stevens "Will we be fair to future generations?'' That was the question posed recently by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke in a speech to The Economic Club of Washington about the...
- Research articles 2006-11-20
- At the bell.
- Fidelity testing 401k auto step-up Fidelity Investments wants to push the automated 401k plan into new territory with a feature that automatically steps up older employees' contributions to take advantage of the higher savings limit avail Fidelity testing...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- IRS rules curb some 401(k) plan contributions.(News)(Internal Revenue Service)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-Final Internal Revenue Service 401k rules curb a low-cost approach that some employers have used to allow higher-paid employees to contribute more to 401k plans and still enable the plans to pass nondiscriminati Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-Final...
- Research articles 2005-01-24
- Senate panel votes higher 401(k) limit.
- * The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved last week legislation that would increase allowable annual contributions to $15,000, from $10,500, for 401k accounts and to $5,000, from $2,000, for individual retirement accounts. The mea * The Senate Finance...
- Research articles 2000-09-11
- Wal-Mart offers employees health premium option.(Brief Article)
- BENTONVILLE, Ark.-Wal-Mart Corp. is giving its employees the option of using part of the company's annual contribution to their 401k plan benefits to pay for increases in health plan premiums. In the company's benefits handbook for 2002, employee BENTONVILLE, Ark.-Wal-Mart Corp. is giving its...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- IRS catches up on 401(k) rules; Employers get new guidance in how tax law changes affect retirement plans.(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON-Employers now have the official guidance on implementing a tax law provision that will allow older employees to make ``catch-up'' contributions to their 401k plans. That provision in the tax law enacted earlier this year allows employ WASHINGTON-Employers now have the official guidance...
- Research articles 2001-10-29
- 401(k) transfers not built in a day. (salary-reduction savings plans)(Opinions)(Editorial)
- How much time should an employer have to transfer employees' 401k plan salary deferrals from general corporate assets to the plan itself? While we don't have an exact answer, we know that just one day - the amount of time the Labor Department is proHow much...
- Research articles 1996-03-04
- Saving time - in a 401(k). (401(k) plan)(the conversion of an employees' unused vacation days into 401(k) contributions)
- WASHINGTON - Benefit managers are studying the advantages and potential pitfalls of an Internal Revenue Service private letter ruling permitting an employer to convert employees' unused vacation days into contributions to their 401k plan. Although tWASHINGTON - Benefit managers are studying the advantages and potential...
- Research articles 1996-12-16
- Two more employers freeze defined benefit pension plans.(News)(ArvinMeritor Inc.)(Lincoln Financial Group)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL PHILADELPHIA and TROY, Mich.-Two large employers, Lincoln Financial Group and ArvinMeritor Inc., last week said they will freeze their defined benefit pension plans and enhance their 401k plans. Effective Jan. 1, 2008, emp Byline: JERRY GEISEL ...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- Proposed IRS rules clarify administration of Roth 401(k) plans.(News)( Internal Revenue Service)(Brief Article)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-Proposed Internal Revenue Service regulations released last week pave the way for employers next year to start offering a new type of tax-favored 401k plan. Created by Congress as part of a 2001 tax law and slat Byline:...
- Research articles 2005-03-07
- IRS move boosts Roth 401(k) plans; But wide acceptance still some years away, experts say.(News)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-Another obstacle blocking employers from adding Roth 401k plans has been lifted, but widespread employer adoption of the plans is at least several years away. Last week, the Internal Revenue Service finalized re Byline: JERRY GEISEL ...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- IRS makes 401(k) rules a bit easier.
- WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service is removing a major administrative hassle and expense for employers that want to offer generous 401k plans that are exempt from non-discrimination tests. A 1996 federal law that went into effect late las WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue...
- Research articles 2000-01-24
- Late News.(insurance industry business)(Statistical Data Included)
- Bush task force to review 401k safeguards In the wake of the loss of more than $1 billion by Enron Corp. 401k plan participants, the Bush administration will establish a multiagency task force to develop recommendations to prevent future threa Bush task force...
- Research articles 2002-01-14
- How good is your 401(k)?(Special Report: Retirement Funding/401(K)s)
- Company policy is tied to retirement comfort Some 401k plans help employees provide for the golden years. Others deliver a platinum retirement. Consider: An employee who joins Commonwealth Edison Co. in Chicago at age 35 with a salary of $65,000 andCompany policy is tied to retirement...
- Research articles 1997-03-17
- IRS retreats on nonqualified/401(k) pourover plan. (Internal Revenue Service)
- The Internal Revenue Service has decided to prohibit the use of a nonqualified deferred compensation plan to collect 401k contributions until the 401k maximum could be determined at the end of each year. The approach was a creative solution to the dilThe Internal Revenue Service has decided to prohibit the...
- Research articles 1994-05-09
- Gallagher freezes pension plan; Brokerage joins exodus from defined benefit plans to 401(k).(News)(Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.)(Brief Article)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL ITASCA, Ill.-Another major employer is phasing out its defined benefit pension plan in favor of an enriched 401k plan. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. froze its $137 million pension plan last month, with employees no longer Byline:...
- Research articles 2005-08-15
- EMPLOYERS GET BREAK ON CHANGING PLANS FOR 401(K) ROLLOVERS.
- WASHINGTON-The Internal Revenue Service is giving employers one more year to comply with a law designed to close a 401k/IRA tax loophole that complicates plan administration. Employers complained that they didn't have enough time to modify their WASHINGTON-The Internal Revenue Service is giving...
- Research articles 1999-01-11
- Tech Data. (Clearwater).(suspends matching contributions to its 401(k) retirement plan; lays-off employees)(Brief Article)
- Tech Data (Nasdaq-TECD) has suspended matching contributions to its 401k retirement plan. The change will save the hardware and software computer distributor ... Tech Data (Nasdaq-TECD) has suspended matching contributions to its 401k retirement plan. The change will save the hardware and software computer distributor...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Sonesta to freeze DB plan, match 401(k) contributions.(Sonesta International Hotels Corp.'s defined benefit plan)
- BOSTON - Sonesta International Hotels Corp., Boston, will freeze its defined benefit plan to all of its U.S. employees effective Dec. 31, and begin matching contributions up to 4% of employees' earnings to its 401k plan, according to an SEC filing. BOSTON - Sonesta International Hotels...
- Research articles 2006-11-27
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