What this service is:

Monitor the laws, regulations, cases, and issues that influence pension and benefits policy, design, and administration with Pensions & Benefits Reporter.

What it helps you do:

• Stay on top of news and trends in today's fast-paced pension and benefits arena. Get the inside story on federal and state legislative, legal, regulatory, and industry developments, delivered by Bloomberg BNA's national network of reporters and correspondents.
• Ease compliance with changing statutory requirements. Track the progress of proposed and final legislation and regulations. Monitor enforcement efforts.
• Rely on practitioner-written, in-depth BNA Insights on important pension and benefits topics.
• Have the information you need to plan and administer the best possible pension and employee benefits package for your company.
• Link to important documents, including IRS, Labor Department, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation rules, announcements, notices, and letters, plus major court and agency decisions.
• Be aware of state and local government initiatives affecting pension and health benefit plans. Find out about labor programs.
• Understand pension-related tax legislation and policy.
• Trust the information service that's been publishing since ERISA was enacted in 1974.

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print notification is issued weekly and indexed quarterly, cumulating annually.

Web notification is available weekly and archived to 5/27/1996. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each report, with URLs to full-text articles and documents are also available.

• Age discrimination
• Benefits policies and practices
• Collective bargaining
• Deferred compensation
• Employee stock ownership plans
• Employee stock options
• Enforcement
• ERISA
• ERISA litigation and plan disqualification
• Executive compensation
• Federal compliance and regulatory directives
• Fiduciary duty and prohibited transactions
• Health and welfare plans: reporting and disclosure
• Health benefits
• Health care reform
• Investments
• Legal issues
• Multi-employer plans
• Pension and tax legislation
• Pension, profit-sharing and other retirement-type plans
• Plan terminations
• Retiree health benefits
• Revenue rulings and procedures
• Securities regulation
• Social Security
• State and local government plans
• Tax policy and guidance