June 2026

DOL’s guidance gives employers room to fund or facilitate Trump Account contributions without creating an ERISA plan.

When Congress created Trump accounts under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one of the questions employers quickly focused on is whether providing employees with a plan under which contributions may be made to Trump accounts would constitute

The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury, as well as the Office of Personnel Management (Departments) recently finalized the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Operations rule under the No Surprises Act (NSA). Although many self-funded group health plan fiduciaries won’t have to deal directly with the operational changes to the federal IDR