Pension Committee comments to the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) regarding certain disclosures on the Annual Funding Notice for defined benefit plans.(October 03, 2013)

Pension Committee letter to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) that supports the proposed regulations on premium rates, payment of premiums, and reducing regulatory burdens.(October 02, 2013)

Pension Committee comments to the Actuarial Standards Board on its recent modeling ASOP exposure draft that included concerns that the potential ASOP could be applied too broadly.(September 27, 2013)

Pension Finance Task Force letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that provides suggestions, based on financial economics, to improve accounting for single employer pension plans, an issue that FASB may consider revisiting.(September 26, 2013)

Pension Committee comments to the Internal Revenue Service regarding the Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan (Form 5500) that focus on the electronic submission of data on Schedules SB and MB.(September 23, 2013)

Health and Pension Practice Council letter to the Actuarial Standards Board on coordinating Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOP) affecting pension and retiree group benefits.(August 30, 2013)

Joint Committee on Retiree Health comments to the Actuarial Standards Board on revisions to a second exposure draft of ASOP No. 6, Measuring Retiree Group Benefits Obligations and Determining Retiree Group Benefits Program Periodic Costs or Prefunding Contributions.(August 30, 2013)

Pension Committee comments on Department of Labor’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking regarding pension benefit statement requirements under section 105 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.(August 07, 2013)

Letter from Senior Pension Fellow Don Fuerst to Chairman Johnson and Ranking Member Becerra of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security in response to questions from Chairman Johnson following Fuerst’s May 23 testimony to the subcommittee.(July 31, 2013)

Pension Committee comments to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation regarding its proposed rule on reportable events under ERISA Section 4043.(June 03, 2013)