This committee develops Chamber policy recommendations on all employee benefit issues: health care, pension and retirement plans, and other employer-provided benefits, as well as public programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
This committee develops Chamber policy recommendations on all employee benefit issues: health care, pension and retirement plans, and other employer-provided benefits, as well as public programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
The committee oversees the Chamber's response to employee benefit legislation pending before all congressional committees of jurisdiction as well as regulatory initiatives before administrative agencies. The committee has a Retirement Plans Subcommittee, a Healthcare Regulatory Task Force, and Health Insurer Council (see separate description for the task force and council under Special Programs, Councils and Task Forces), which works on those issues in more technical detail than the full committee.
This coalition letter to the U.S. Senate urges quick action to pass H.R. 1994 is signed by more than 90 organizations.
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As the multiemployer pension funding crisis looms, its now up to the Senate to act.
This letter was sent to the United States Senate supporting H.R. 1994, the "Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019."
Chantel Sheaks, Executive Director of Retirement Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, provided the following written statement to the 2019 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans for the June 25, 2019 meeting titled "Beyond Plan Audit Compliance: Improving the Financial Statement Audit Process."
The undersigned organizations, are writing to urge you to pass H.R. 1994, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement (SECURE) Act.
On June 14, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a comment letter with the Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan health taskforce urging for full repeal of the Medical Device Tax, the Health Insurer Tax, and the "Cadillac Tax".
On June 11, 2019, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce signed a coalition letter along with several additional stakeholders, encouraging Congress to address the growing multiemployer pension plan crisis and offer legislative solutions for all plans.
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