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A typical state retiree will lose about half their cost of living adjustment next year, or about $186 for the year, under a plan the South Carolina financial oversight board adopted on Thursday.

Rhode Island is ground zero for pension reform right now. The state, which has found itself with an unfunded pension liability of between $7 billion and $9 billion, has proposed a hybrid defined benefit/defined contribution plan to reform its retirement system.

Social Security not only shouldn't be cut as part of the United States debt reduction measures, but, according to Merton Bernstein, an expert on Social Security and the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, it wouldnt take much to ensure Social Securitys viability 75 years...

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How employers are confronting costly employee stresses.

The U.S. Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration published a final rule updating the procedures for filing and processing applications for prohibited transaction exemptions under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

The U.S. Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that information the EBSA requires plan administrators to give to plan participants or beneficiaries under its participant-level fee disclosure regulation will satisfy the requirements of Rule 482 under the Securities Act of 1933.

Legislation aimed at reining in retiree benefit costs for Michigan state workers was approved Thursday by the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee.