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As members of the congressional supercommittee are announced, those in the benefits field are no doubt asking themselves, "What will this mean for me?"

Sometimes I wonder if CFOs and HR Directors talk with each other. Occasionally I run into a CFO who is implementing a tax strategy using employee benefits, and he or she is clueless as to whether the benefits are actually valued by the employee.

Lawmakers told Phyllis Borzi, head of the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on Tuesday, to repropose the agency's controversial regulation amending the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), because the definition offered is too broad and because EBSA failed to examine the...

The Employers Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to clarify where flexible savings arrangements (FSAs) fit in with the new Form W-2 health benefits reporting requirements.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) imposes a new fee on "specified health insurance policies" and "applicable self-insured health plans" effective for plan years ending after Sept. 30, 2012. The new fee, according to IRS guidance, will be based on "the average number of lives covered under the...

Four in 10 employers expect to devote more time addressing retirement plan governance issues over the next two years.

McKinsey unravels, the Feds are coming and compliance can be kind of funny sometimes.

Retirement planning officials take note: The Obama administration is ramping up enforcement efforts to combat the large number of retirement plans that it says are not compliant with retirement planning rules and regulations.