The principal regulators of U.S. employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months.

..On August 15, 2016, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released their 2016-2017 Priority Guidance Plan, often informally referred to as the IRS Business Plan, which lists those issues that will be the subject of formal guidance from July 2016 through June 2017.