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Acting with a sense of urgency to avoid a first-ever federal debt default, the U.S. Senate late June 1 approved legislation to suspend the federal debt limit until 2025, clearing the measure for presidential signature, expected today.
The Senate vote on the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (H.R....
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The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL) on May 30 urging it to “effectively and expeditiously” implement SECURE 2.0. It also urged the DOL to prioritize six provisions related to the committee’s mission.
More specifically...
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Amid threats of the economy crashing and 401(k)s plummeting, the House of Representatives late May 31 approved legislation to suspend the federal debt limit until 2025.
Facing a June 5 deadline to avoid a first-ever federal default if Congress does not act, the House approved the Fiscal...
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Legislation is before the New York state Senate that would allow certain employees of the city of New York to be automatically enrolled in the New York City Board of Education Retirement System.
The state Assembly has passed the legislation; a third committee of the state Senate is now...
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Racing against a looming June 5 deadline, negotiators for President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked late into the night on May 26 in order to announce an agreement in principle on the morning of May 27 to raise the debt ceiling.
The news came just over one week before the earliest...
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There is pressure from state legislatures for action concerning the windfall elimination provision (WEP) and the government pension offset (GPO). Both are benefit formulas that reduce Social Security benefits for workers and their eligible family members if the worker receives (or is entitled to) a...
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The odds increased of Nevada becoming the next state to provide retirement plan coverage to private-sector employees whose employers do not, when the state Senate on May 29 voted in favor of legislation that would do just that.
SB305 was introduced on March 16, 2023.
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The IRS has issued guidance on the expansion of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) under Section 305 of SECURE 2.0.
The guidance is contained in Notice 2023-43, which provides interim guidance in advance of an update to Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2021-30.
The issues the...
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With more than a third of the U.S. workforce said to be currently engaged in temporary, contract or on-demand work, a bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced legislation to test “innovative portable benefit designs” to help level the playing field for these workers who lack access to benefits...
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On May 23, Congress sent a letter to the Treasury Department informing Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel that it will introduce legislation to fix several technical errors contained in SECURE 2.0.
Signed by four prominent SECURE 2.0 figures—House Ways and Means Committee...
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The ink is barely dry on the measures that created state-run retirement plans in Connecticut and Maine that provide coverage for private-sector employees whose employers do not, but already bills are advancing in the legislatures in those states to fine-tune those programs.
Connecticut
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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on May 24 passed HB 577, a bill that would create the Keystone Saves Program, which would be an automatic enrollment payroll deduction IRA retirement savings program.
The measure passed in a 106-95 vote. All 101 Democrats in the state House voted for it,...
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Minnesota became the latest state to officially launch a state-sponsored retirement plan for private-sector employees lacking coverage.
Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed HF0782, the measure that creates the Minnesota Secure Choice retirement program, into law on May 19, making it one of 12 states offering...
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CalSavers, the state-run retirement plan that covers private-sector employees whose employers don’t offer a plan, is growing — but so far this year, the expansion in assets is outstripping that of registrations.
Registrations
Month-to-month growth in employer registrations was still...
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The Land of 10,000 Lakes is poised to become the next to adopt a measure creating a state-run retirement program that provides coverage for private-sector employees whose employers do not.
The state Senate approved the bill that would do so on May 11, and the House had done so 10 days earlier; the...
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The Vermont House of Representatives has passed legislation that would create VTSaves, bringing the state one step closer to becoming the latest to establish a state-run retirement program to provide coverage to private-sector employees whose employers do not.
The state Senate had passed S.135 on...
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The IRS has issued an update to the 2022-2023 priority guidance plan.
The IRS had released the initial plan on Nov. 4, 2022, setting forth guidance priorities for the 12-month period from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023 (the plan year). It released an update to the plan in February.
The To...
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A bill that would establish a state-run retirement plan to provide coverage for employees whose private-sector employers do not is working its way through the Pennsylvania legislature.
The Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives on May 3 voted in favor of HB 577 in a 12-8, party-line...
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The third rail of American politics isn’t what it should be, according to Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, (R-LA).
“We have to redefine what that third rail is,” Cassidy said when asked about prospects for a Social Security fix. “The third rail, according to our leading presidential candidates, is...
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The California Retirement Savings Board has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for consulting services for CalSavers, the state-run retirement plan that provides coverage for private-sector employees whose employers do not.
The Board seeks a contractor to provide technical and administrative...
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