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As health care costs continue to grow, employers and employees alike are searching for ways to reduce the financial burdens they face, and many are turning to consumer-driven health plans that include flexible spending accounts.

When the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration re-proposes its fiduciary rules, it must take into account their effect on broker/dealers, plan sponsors, record keepers and plan auditors, says Jeleen Guttenberg, a partner in the law firm Bracewell & Giulianis Employee Benefits, ERISA, and Executive Compensation group.

Small- and mid-sized plan sponsors could benefit from the use of Open Multiple Employer Plans or MEPs, says law firm DrinkerBiddle.

Church plans will have to notify plan participants before asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide private letter rulings confirming the plans status.

Retirement plans exist to provide earnings streams to retirees, but knowing how to pensionize retirement savings is largely a foreign concept to most workers.

The Internal Revenue Service is offering a break to employers who come clean about wrongly classifying workers as independent contractors to avoid paying federal payroll taxes, the agency announced Wednesday.

For 2011, all 401(k) plans can allow catch-up contributions of how much for employees age 50 and over?

Jeopardy champ attempts to revamp health care, while Congress looks to meddle with 401(k)s