Ellen Kleinstuber, vice-chairperson of the Academy’s Pension Committee, testified at an ERISA Advisory Council hearing on model notices and disclosures to help defined benefit plan participants understand their options when offered lump-sum distributions in a pension risk transfer transaction.
The Health Practice Council (HPC) published an issue brief that examines the approaches included in various proposals that policymakers are considering before the Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell. The court could decide that federal premium subsidies are not available for individual market plans in states participating in the federally facilitated marketplace.
The RBC Catastrophe Risk Subcommittee submitted a comment letter to the NAIC’s Catastrophe Risk (E) Subgroup on revised Form PR026 for the 2015 reporting year.