Defined benefit plans had a good year in 2025, at least as far as funding levels are concerned. If they were issued a report card, they’d get an A+ for their funding ratios.

Many retirement plan fiduciaries have been sued for fiduciary breaches due to their handling of forfeited employer contributions in recent years. An industry expert discusses relevant legal theory and ...

December's private-sector pension plan stocking did not bring a lump of coal, but at the same time, the gifts in the pension stocking were modest — and were largely due to a positive reversal in ...

The American Retirement Association (ARA) announced that high-profile ERISA consultant and attorney Kizzy Gaul joined the organization as its Director of Technical Education.

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) average wait times for calls improved in fiscal year (FY) 2025, says a report the SSA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has issued. The report, issued ...

Social Security supports retirees. That's the assumption —but some recipients are not retirees and are very much still part of the workforce. How can that be? And what does that mean?

As 2026 is under way, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year from the perspective of the ARA Government Affairs Team, and, more importantly, what that work meant for you and the clients ...

The PBGC’s Office of the Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate has outlined what it hopes 2026 will bring and mean for the agency and what the PBGC can — and should — do in the new year.

The student loan match was one of the most anticipated features of the SECURE 2.0 Act — but its performance has not met expectations, according to the PSCA 68th Annual 401(k) Survey.

Bit by bit, more states are providing auto-IRAs to provide retirement plan coverage for those workers whose private-sector employers do not. The effect on their participants is apparent. What’s less ...

As 2026 begins, a new white paper by Mercer suggests that DC plan sponsors should consider a variety of issues as they head into the new year.