While many celebrated the abrupt unraveling of President Donald Trumps and House Republicans recent efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this shift could change the tax-exempted status of employer-provided health care plans.

By 2047, debt will be 150 percent of GDP, a prospect that will pose substantial risks for the nation, the CBO says in its report.

The Senate voted to repeal the safe harbor for municipal retirement plans, similar to the safe harbor the DOL created for state-administered auto-IRA plans.

Under the fiduciary rules private right of action provision, IRA investors can bring class action claims if the Best Interest Contract Exemption which includes a warranty guaranteeing a fiduciary standard of care for advice on IRA investments -- is breached.

The aggregate funding level of collectively bargained multiemployer pension plans has improved, but for an increasing number of participants in multiemployer plans, unfavorable demographics present a threat to future plan solvency.

Some service providers are delaying notification to plan sponsors.

During his confirmation hearing, DOL nominee Acosta said in an exchange with Sen. Elizabeth Warren that the fiduciary rule 'goes far beyond addressing the standard of conduct of investment advisors.'

Over the course of EBRIs 27 years of conducting the survey, confidence hit a pinnacle in 1993, when 73 percent of respondents were at least somewhat confident in their ability to retire comfortably.