📊DOL Seeks Comments on Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
Learn More💼IRS Seeks Comments on Pension Funding Relief Proposal
The Internal Revenue Service, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The IRS is soliciting comments concerning the funding relief for multiemployer defined benefit pension plans under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Learn More📄Regulatory Notice on Definition of Plan Assets for Employee Contributions
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
Learn More💼MSKCC Secures Exemption for Enhanced Pension Benefits
This document contains a notice of exemption issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). This exemption permits the reinsurance of risks and the receipt of a premium by MSK Employee Benefits IC (MSK EB or the Captive), a captive insurance and reinsurance subsidiary that is wholly-owned by MSKCC, in connection with a single premium group insurance contract sold by an unrelated fronting insurer (the Fronting Insurer or the Fronter) to provide pension annuities to participants and beneficiaries in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Pension Plan (the Plan). The relief provided in the exemption will only be available if the conditions in Section III are met in conformance with the definitions in Section I.
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