Skip to main content
All lobbying filings

AMERICAN BENEFITS COUNCIL

AMERICAN BENEFITS COUNCIL filed a Q4 report for AMERICAN BENEFITS COUNCIL on January 20, 2026.

Lobbying for AMERICAN BENEFITS COUNCIL

All filings by AMERICAN BENEFITS COUNCIL · Everything AMERICAN BENEFITS COUNCIL has reported

 Filing · LD-2 quarterly report Q4 report
Reporting period
4th Quarter 2025
Oct 1 - Dec 31 · Posted Jan 20, 2026
Expenses
$210,000
What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using IRS section 162(e) definitions (method C): the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.
Client based in
District of Columbia

Official filing document

 Lobbyists on this filing 3
  • DIANN HOWLAND
    Previously held: Pension Policy Director for the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Pension Policy Advisor of the Senate Finance Committee
  • ILYSE SCHUMAN
    Previously held: Senate HELP Committee, Chief Labor Counsel, Minority Staff Director
  • KATHRYN JOHNSON
    Previously held: Attorney advisor, Office of Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Department of Treasury; attorney, Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

 Government bodies contacted 8

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when. Each name opens every filing that named the same body.

 Lobbying activity 2
Retirement

ERISA Preemption Oversight of EBSA programs Alternative investments in qualified retirement plans Standard of review for fiduciary decisions Pooled Employer Plans Collective investment trusts (CITs) and insurance company separate accounts for use by 403(b) plans Age of required participation in retirement plans reduced from 21 to 18 Permitting automatic re-enrollment of unenrolled participants EBSA Investigations Transparency Act (HR 2869) Retire Through Ownership Act (HR 5169 / S 2403) Transparency for Secret Litigation Agreements (HR 2958) ERISA Litigation Reform Act (HR 6084) Pleading standards legislative proposal regarding standards applicable to ERISA, deference to fiduciary decisions Defined benefit pension plans and defined contribution plans; pension plan de-risking, retiree health accounts Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) Market-based cash balance plans Pension Risk Transfers Roth Catch-up contributions Trump (child saving) Accounts Retirement plan limits for 2026 and segment rates

Health Issues

ERISA preemption Health Savings Accounts and High-Deductible Health Plans; permanent safe harbor for HSA-eligible health plans to cover telehealth pre-deductible, HSA flexibility direct primary care and chronic disease, on-site clinics; budget reconciliation; Telehealth Expansion Act Tax treatment of employer-sponsored health benefit plans Health care cost transparency, prescription drugs, PBM pricing and transparency and hospital cost transparency End-stage renal disease and Medicare secondary payer standards Hospital consolidation and billing practices, site neutral payment reform; Healthy Competition for Better Care Act ERISA health plan electronic reporting and disclosure, Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs), allow repurposing excess assets in VEBAs 340B Prescription Drug Program Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fee Disclosure Health letter to Treasury on OBBBA Surprise Medical Billing Paid leave; Interstate Paid Leave Action Network (I-PLAN) Act (H.R. 3090); More Paid Leave for More Americans Act

 Bills named in this filing 5

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.

Report a problem