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Portland, Maine - The Compliance Assistance Seminar sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Maine Division of Insurance, will take place in Portland, Maine, October 13-14, at the Double Tree Hotel, 1230 Congress Street.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to storm damages from Hurricane Ivan in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) today announced the release of the 2004 Form 5500.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the release of a final regulation that will provide employee benefit plan fiduciaries with guidance to help them preserve workers’ retirement savings.

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Detroit, Michigan - The president of W. K. Industries Inc. of Sterling Heights, Michigan, and the trustee of the company’s profit sharing plan have restored $630,000 to the plan as repayment for a prohibited loan from the plan to the company’s president, according to a consent order and judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner of defunct Western Rubber, Inc. of Goshen, Indiana, to recover employee contributions that he failed to forward to the company’s self-insured health plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to storm damages from Hurricane Frances in 15 North Carolina counties.

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment removing Classic Stone Industries, Inc. in Cleveland as a fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) plan and appointing an independent fiduciary to manage the plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to storm damages from Hurricane Frances in 42 Florida counties.

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Washington, DC - The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans and its three working groups will convene September 21-23, 2004, in Room N3437 A-C at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

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Salt Lake City, Utah - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Learnframe, Inc., its chief executive and financial officers, and its board of directors for failing to deposit more than $100,000 in 401(k) contributions into the employees’ pension accounts.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a preliminary injunction removing the trustees of the Paramount, California-based International Union of Industrial and Independent Workers Benefit Fund (IUIIW) and permanently barring them from service to the fund.

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San Francisco, California - To protect the 401(k) contributions of employees of now-defunct Madsen Mechanical Inc. in Ogden, Utah, the U.S. Department of Labor and the company’s former president have reached an agreement that $24,821 in debt owed to the plan cannot be discharged due to a bankruptcy filing.

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Brookfield, Wisconsin-based Garrett Group L.L.C. and the administrator of its 401(k) savings plan for failing to forward employee contributions to the plan of company-owned Badger Die Casting Corporation of Milwaukee.

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued executives of the Acme Arsena Company of Cuyahoga County for allegedly transferring $765,000 in assets from the company’s retirement plan for their own benefit.

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit to appoint an independent fiduciary for the retirement plan of The Astatic Corporation of Conneaut, Ohio, to distribute plan assets to participants and terminate the plan.