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ERIC Urges Treasury to Expand Options and Provide Permanent Nondiscrimination Relief for Closed Defined Benefit Plans

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) today submitted comments to the Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) urging the Agencies to provide permanent relief and additional options for frozen defined benefit plans to satisfy the nondiscrimination testing requirements under the Internal Revenue Code.… More

ERIC Expresses Concern with Ways & Means Committee Chairman Camp’s Tax Reform Discussion Draft

ERIC President and CEO Scott Macey today made the following statement in response to the release of a tax reform “discussion draft” by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI)… More

ERIC Urges Supreme Court to Apply Presumption of Prudence in Plans with Company Stock

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) on February 3 filed (with other trade associations) with the U.S. Supreme Court an amicus brief in the Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer case, urging the Court to apply the presumption of prudence at the pleading stage of a lawsuit. … More

ERIC Asks that Transitional Reinsurance Fee Be Implemented on Fair and Impartial Basis

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) today submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging the agency to ensure that the method for computing the transitional reinsurance fee under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) not impose unnecessary administrative burdens or costs on employers, and that the fee be applied on a fair and impartial basis. … More

ERIC Urges Supreme Court to Confirm that FICA Taxes Do Not Apply to Supplemental Unemployment Benefits

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) on December 13 filed with the U.S. Supreme Court an amicus brief in the United States v. Quality Stores case, urging the Court to uphold an appeals court ruling that supplemental unemployment benefits … More

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