When you have an employer that offers a pension plan, whether you contribute to the pension plan from your earnings or not you should know how it operates. In fact, your employer or pension plan admin...
ERISA protections, which are mandated by federal law, specifically prohibit employers from terminating employees prior to the vesting of their retirement plans in order to avoid the payment of a pensi...
PostIf you have a retirement plan with an employer, and are then fired from the company, that employer can't take away any money you have contributed to the retirement plan in the case of a 401(K). In the...
PostWhether or not your employer needs to provide you with health insurance while you are off on workers comp is a very complicated question to answer, and one you are going to need a lawyer for. While ma...
Absent a union contract, or an agreement that runs to the benefit of the employees (such as an employment agreement), employers are generally able to change the employer sponsored insurance policy at ...
PostState Farm Insurance, the largest property casualty insurer in the U.S., was ranked the third worst insurance company in America by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for its denial and delay ...
Scams & schemes involving Internal Revenue Code Section 412(i) pension plan fraud have taken many business owners by surprise. Told by insurance companies that contributions to their employee retirem...
Companies who set up IRS Code Section 419 Welfare Benefit Plans that were funded by life insurance are finding they've got big problems. Although insurance agents told business owners that their cont...
Bank of America and its mortgage lender subsidiary, Countrywide Financial Corporation, have agreed to settle a class action lawsuit which alleged that California based Countrywide violated ERISA (Empl...
The term vesting means that a secured right is in place and cannot be taken away. Vesting commonly refers to whether or not the money that has been set aside for you in a retirement plan is yours to k...
Whether your pension benefits are taxable depends on several factors. Your pension benefits can be fully or partially taxable depending on how and when you contributed to the fund. It is also importan...
Federal law does not require employers to offer retirement plans to their employees. If employers choose to offer retirement plans, they must follow strict guidelines regarding how the plans are manag...
Employer-provided health insurance does not always have to cover step-children, even though policies may generally cover biological and legally adopted children. Employer-provided health insurance onl...
Cliff vesting means an employee becomes 100 percent vested (and entitled to the full amount of promised pension benefits) all at once. When an employer offers graduated vesting, the employee obtains t...
Your employer changes health insurance plans mid-year, what happens in regards to payments you've made against the deductible on the existing plan?...
There is no law requiring that employees add their families (including spouses) to employer-provided health insurance. Therefore, while you are married, he does not need......
Yes, you have to pay back your employer for your share of the premiums if they were underpaid for any reason. Insufficient funds were taken......
Does an employer have to offer employees benefits, such as vacations, health plans, pension, etc.?...
If you pay health insurance premiums to your company, and the company declares bankruptcy – and so does not actually make the payments to the health insurance company – what happens may depend on ...
What happens to my pension money if leave work and take another job?...
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