retirement tax incentives for American workers. The new requirement that employers automatically enroll employees in a simple … defined contribution plan, and the new refundable retirement savings tax credits, both do so. One major proposal needs to be … added. Roth individual retirement accounts and annuities (IRAs) must be subject to the same required minimum distribution …

On March 29, 2022 the House approved H.R. 2954 that is titled the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022 (the SECURE … Act 2.0) by a vote of 414-5. On May 26, 2022, a discussion draft of the Retirement Improvement and Savings Enhancement to … than diminish retirement benefit disparities, while leaving tens of millions of American families and workers with …

statutory prohibition against the alienation of benefits requires that pension plan terms permit QDROs to determine benefit … benefit entitlements. Thus, pension plans must disregard settlements between the parties, whether or not incorporated in court …, unlike most pension and life insurance plans, permits the assignment of benefits. There may be such authorization if a plan …

whatsoever, because the default benefit is an annuity during the life of the retiree. The Retirement Equity Act of 1984 (REACT …

prohibition on the assignment or alienation of pension benefits voids any release of such a plan or its fiduciaries from a claim … that an individual is entitled to accrued benefits under such plan. This does not preclude settlements of pension benefit …

. However, the Court blurred the bright-line rules applicable to (1) benefit entitlements, (2) the alienation of pension …

spouse of an ERISA pension plan participant did not comply with the terms of the governing plan documents, the plan could pay …, ERISA plan sponsors, administrators, participants and administrators. 1) May Pension Plans Defer to Disclaimers by … Separating or Divorcing Spouses? 2) May Pension Plans Defer to Divorcing and Separating Spouses Who Seek to Retain Survivor …

, including the requirement that ERISA plans follow the designations of such an order, are applicable only to pension plans. Thus …