Your Employee Rights Are At Stake
For those who have experienced issues with their employer-provided benefits, like their retirement accounts and health insurance, they have likely heard of ERISA. That is because ERISA is the law that set the minimum standard for these types of employer-provided...
When an employee is provided benefits at their place of employment, they likely do not consider whether they are the benefits they are required to receive. Additionally, employees may not be aware of their rights and options when it comes to enforcing the terms of...
Not surprisingly, many people who live in and around Washington, D.C., work for one of the many federal government agencies and offices headquartered in the area. Moreover, there are many more people who live in the area who work for the Maryland or Virginia...
With all the news lately, one may have missed the recent ERISA Supreme Court decision. Specifically, it found a recent effort by Alabama to reduce ERISA prescription drug prices was legal and enforceable. ERISA As a primer, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that provides important protections for workers. ERISA regulates the retirement plans of private employers, as well as disability insurance plans offered by employers to employees as part of...
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, known as ERISA, resulted from poor management and unfair vesting rules from private employers. The federal government passed the law in 1974 to impose regulations on vesting rules and funding of company pensions. Companies...
Readers of our blog are likely familiar with ERISA, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. ERISA sets the minimum standards for most public-sector employer-provided health and retirement plans, and this blog covers the topic extensively. Naturally then,...
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is federal legislation that allows government officials to maintain oversight over different employee-administered welfare plans and benefits. Some of the programs that federal officials oversee include health...
If you have a job with health insurance, then you may not want to do anything to jeopardize your access to those benefits. What happens if you leave your job though? You may assume that you'll become uninsured if you do. That's not necessarily the case though. You may...
The Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on Sept. 2, 1974. Although it's undergone many updates since then, it has much the same aim as it originally did. ERISA was enacted to make sure that those who manage...
