Journals By Industry - Health & Welfare Funds

HEADNOTE Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 4-week primary prevention program (vocationally oriented multidisciplinary early rehabilitation or VOMR) in reducing the risk of long-term work disability...

Articles Mark C. Weber, A New Look at Section 504 and the ADA in Special Education Cases, 16 Tex. J. on Civ. Liberties & Civ. Rights 1 (2010). The author argues that children...

Thirty years old in 2012, Board of Education v. Rowley^ remains the Supreme Court's sole pronouncement on the meaning of the duty to provide appropriate education for children with disabilities. This duty is...

The 2011 class of CFO of the Year winners and finalists achieved their greatest accomplishments in the past few years, when the economic challenges were the highest. They found creative avenues to bolster...

Determination of Governmental Plan Status AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of the Treasury. ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking. SUMMARY: The Treasury Department and IRS anticipate issuing regulations under section 414(d) of...

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns a 'BBB+' rating to the following guaranteed bonds of the Puerto Rico (PR) Public Building Authority: --Government Facilities Revenue Bonds, Series T (Qualified School Construction Bonds -...

The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration has proposed two new rules under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aimed at cracking down on heath care fraud and protecting businesses and...

This article covers developments from the past year affecting taxation of individuals, including last year's tax relief, health care, and small business legislation, regulations, cases, and IRS guidance. The items are arranged in...

This two-part article covers significant developments in late 2010 and 2011 in employee benefits, including executive compensation, health and welfare benefits, qualified plans, and employment taxes. Part I, in the November 2011 issue,...

INTRODUCTION Since the establishment of the Soviet Union in the 1920s, various attempts at building socialist economies have been carried out in many countries across the world. However, experience has shown that the...

When Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011, it created an opportunity for addressing major reforms in health and human services that is truly unique. The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rosalie Nadeau has been serving the needs of the public through Akeela Inc. for more than 20 years. When she first joined the nonprofit organization, it had an $800,000 budget and...

On September 30, President Obama signed the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-34). The law has three overarching goals: (1) reauthorizing Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services...

Pick.Click.Give. (PCG) is helping grow support for Alaska's community nonprofit programs from Permanent Fund Dividend donations. A few years ago, an extended family crisis made Steve Handy a convert. Now he takes care...

ABSTRACT We solve an empirically parameterized life-cycle model of consumption and pension choices to show how expected earnings growth and risk affect the benefits of final-salary defined benefit (DB) pension plans, relative to...

ABSTRACT Although annuities are a theoretically appealing way to manage longevity risk, in the real world relatively few consumers purchase them at retirement. To counteract the possibility of retirees outliving their assets, Singapore's...

Abstract Over the last two decades Australia's progress in reducing its long-term reliance on unemployment payments was disappointing; this was despite an improving labour market, tighter work requirements and reformed employment assistance. After...

Affirming the dismissal of a complaint, the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in part that the complaint failed to allege a causal relationship between Bayer Corp.'s alleged concealment of the dangers...

* Los Angeles County Foster Care Youth Study Reinforces New State Policy that Keeps Young Adults in Program until age 21 LOS ANGELES -- A first-ever study of youth in foster care and...