Council members are encouraged to sign a group letter urging Congress to permanently restore statutory flexibility for HSA-eligible high-deductible employer-sponsored health plans to offer telehealth coverage pre-deductible.

From January 9-16, 2025, the Council surveyed member organizations to learn about the use of Safe Harbor IRAs in conjunction with small-balance force-outs.

The Council will release its long-term public policy strategic plan, DESTINATION 2030, on February 12. This document will set forth the challenges plan sponsors face today, the goals for surmounting those challenges and policy recommendations for achieving those goals.

The district court dismissed the ERISA breach of fiduciary duty claims that were brought against a company and its plan fiduciaries regarding the company’s drug benefits.

The Council recently filed an amicus brief in Doherty v. Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) to support typical pension risk transfer practices.

DOL has adopted a new self-correction process for retirement plan fiduciaries, streamlining compliance for plan sponsors while maintaining key oversight requirements.

Statutory flexibility for Health Savings Account (HSA)-eligible high-deductible employer-sponsored health plans to offer telehealth coverage pre-deductible expired at the end of 2024.

In the final days of the Biden administration, the tri-agencies issued helpful guidance addressing some outstanding questions regarding the “gag clause” prohibition enacted under the CAA and regarding various provisions of the No Surprises Act.

On his first day in office, President Trump issued a regulatory freeze at federal agencies, which has prevented two retirement rules from proceeding and could slow down agency activity on other matters.

In the last week of the Biden administration, recently proposed rules were withdrawn that would have required health plans to cover, without cost-sharing, OTC contraceptives.  

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted review of an appeals court decision which found that some aspects of the preventive services requirements under the ACA are unconstitutional.

The PBGC’s Office of the Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate has released its annual report, once again calling on lawmakers to lower premiums paid by defined benefit plan sponsors.