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The funded status for pension plans continued to move upward for the second straight month, according to data released by Mercer.

Soon-to-be House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said today that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a "monstrosity," and that he and his newly empowered Republican colleagues would seek to "replace it with commonsense reforms that will bring down the cost of health care in America."

The Department of Labor’s new 401(k) fee disclosure requirements that will take effect Jan. 1, 2012 go far beyond disclosing mutual fund expense ratios to cover every nook and cranny of expenses in plans, right down to indirect service providers, speakers said on Monday at the FundForum USA 2010 conference.

A new study by Hartford found that 69% of women respondents boosted their understanding of retirement benefits, up from 56% last year.

Should Republicans gain a majority in the House and/or the Senate, the long-known opponents to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could "bar the Department of Health and Human Services from writing the necessary regulations to implement” health care reform, as well as "bar appropriations of the necessary funds," says one health care expert.

The Department of Labor’s new 401(k) fee disclosure requirements that take effect Jan. 1, 2012 go far beyond disclosing mutual fund expense ratios to cover every nook and cranny of expenses in plans, right down to indirect service providers, speakers said at the FundForum USA 2010 conference in Boston Nov. 1.

One of the benefits of the recession is that the constant coverage of the economy has brought retirement savings and retirement benefits into better focus for many Americans, The Hartford Financial Services Group found in a survey of 1,000 adults, conducted by Zeldis Research.

The Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Trade Commission will hold a day-long roundtable discussion, which will also be accessible via a live Web cast, to solicit industry input on privacy and security requirements for personal health records and related service providers.

It’s November, which means three things: open enrollment, turkey dinners and long-term care. Today (Nov. 1) marks the beginning of Long-Term Care Awareness Month, a concentrated push to get employees thinking about how they plan to receive and fund care in their later years.

Unless the lame-duck Congress acts to extend the Bush-era tax cuts about to expire at the end of 2010, the income tax rates that will take effect Jan. 1, 2011 will return to the rates that were in effect a decade ago. The result: More money will be withheld from paychecks, according to an analyst at the tax publisher CCH.