2016 M EDICARE P ART B P REMIUM I NCREASES R ESULTING F ROM THE H OLD H ARMLESS P ROVISION For more information, please contact Jessica Klement, Legislative Director, at jklement@narfe.org, or John Hatton, Deputy Legislative Director, at jhatton@narfe.org.
The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in some forms of political ...
1 The Department of Labor is protecting families from conflicted retirement advice. 2  The Department issued a proposed rule and related exemptions that would require retirement advisers to abide by a fiduciary standard putting their clients' best interest before their own profits. Conflicts lead, on average, to about 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings and $17 billion of losses every year. 2  The Department of Labor is protecting families from conflicted retirement advice.