Employee Benefits Security Administration June 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This document contains amendments to interim final regulations implementing the requirements regarding internal claims and appeals and external review processes for group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets under provisions of the Affordable Care Act. These rules are intended to respond to feedback from a wide range of stakeholders on the interim final regulations and to assist plans and issuers in coming into full compliance with the law through an orderly and expeditious implementation process.

This document contains exemptions issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). This notice includes the following: D-11632, 2011-10, William W. Etherington IRA (the Plan); D-11642, 2011-11, H-E-B Brand Savings and Retirement Plan (the Plan) and H.E. Butt Grocery Company (the Company); L-11625, 2011-12, The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Finishing Trades Institute (the Plan or the Applicants); and L-11641, 2011-13, Ford Motor Company (the Applicant)

This document proposes to extend specified applicability dates of the Department's interim final rule concerning fiduciary-level fee disclosure (29 CFR 2550.408b-2(c), RIN 1210-AB08) and final rule concerning participant-level fee disclosure (29 CFR 2550.404a-5, RIN 1210-AB07). These rules were published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2010 and October 20, 2010, respectively. Extending these dates will more closely align the application of the two rules and ensure that parties have sufficient time to comply with the requirements of the rules.