Link:https://burypensions.wordpress.com/2021/10/17/asppa-2021-conference-day-1/
Excerpt:
General Session 1: Washington Update
per Brian Graff who has spent 25 years at ASPPA and got some recognition for it at the end of this session.
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Hispanic and Black coverage in 401(k) plans is low and if this situation it does not improve private sector plans could be eliminated in favor of a government option as in Australia. States (first Oregon, then CA, and 8 others) are setting up their own plans and forcing companies to be in it if they don’t have their own plans. This is good for us in that companies do not want to give their money to states (especially in CA and NJ) so they set up their own plans that need to administered by us.
Proposal that may be effective in 2023 is requiring all companies with at least six employees in the last two years to set up a 401(k) plan with auto-enrollment at 6% going up to 10%. Pie would increase by 62 million participants (from 95 million now) and 600,000 plans (on top of 800,000 now).
Author(s): John Bury
Publication Date: 17 Oct 2021
Publication Site: burypensions