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EBSA Disaster Relief Notice Highlights Pandemic’s Lasting Impact This latest regulatory development is just another piece of evidence underscoring how extraordinary the last 12 months have been.   Reported by A new commentary shared with PLANSPONSOR by a team of attorneys at the Wagner Law Group provides helpful interpretive information about the recently published Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) Disaster Relief Notice 2021-01. The Wagner attorneys note that this disaster relief is related to actions taken early on in the coronavirus pandemic by the Trump administration. A...

DOL Issues Guidance on Continuing COVID-19 Relief for Employee Benefit Plans, Plan Participants, and Beneficiaries Recognizing that many employee benefit plan participants and...

Last year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) jointly offered extensions and other relief to employee benefit plan administrators who might be...

A Chronology of COVID-19 Relief for ERISA Plans In 2020, the employee benefits world was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The following chronology highlights the ongoing relief provided by legislation, regulatory action, and other agency guidance to assist ERISA plan participants, fiduciaries, and sponsors during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic through November 30, 2020. (Superseded agency guidance has been omitted.) We provide a number of links to articles on our blog, Benefits Law Update, which offer additional information about many of these important regulatory changes. Much of the guida...