The SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 have increased many part-time employees’ access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. As such, sponsors must understand the unique challenges of improving part-time participants’ retirement readiness and how their needs may differ from those of full-time employees. Part-time employees work fewer hours for a number of reasons -- learn what those are in our latest blog. 

It has been 13 years since Congress enacted the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the last piece of major legislation affecting retirement plans. Significant provisions affecting retirement plans were included in various versions of President Trump’s tax reform bill enacted in 2017, but Congress ultimately punted, and none of them made it into the final bill.