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On August 19, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Notice 2024-63 (the “Notice”) for retirement plan sponsors that provide, or may wish to provide, matching contributions based on qualified student loan payments...more
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (SECURE Act) introduced the Long-Term Part-Time (LTPT) rules. These rules aim to address the retirement needs of long-term part-time employees who have...more
Under the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (SECURE Act), plan sponsors with 401(k) plans are required to allow their “long-term part-time employees” to make elective salary deferral...more
SECURE 2.0 allows employers the opportunity to offer matching contributions and profit-sharing contributions on an after-tax basis for participants who elect such treatment. Why would any employer offer that? I require...more
On December 20, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Notice 2024-2, which provides guidance on some important provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”). Notice 2024-2, is not comprehensive guidance...more
In this series of articles, we explore the implications of the long-term, part-time employee rules under the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and the impact those rules have on employers and their workforces. Under the SECURE...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Under Section 604 of Secure 2.0, sponsors of 401(k), 403(b) and governmental plans may allow employees to designate employer match (including match on student loan repayments) or nonelective contributions...more
On August 25, 2023 the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2023-62, which provides a critical 2-year delay in the enforcement of new retirement plan Catch-up Contributions rules passed under the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022....more
In Notice 2023-62, the IRS walked back the SECURE 2.0 rule that required catch-up contributions to be designated as Roth contributions except in the case of employees with compensation of $145,000 or less (indexed), by...more
While we are pleased to have you contact us by telephone, surface mail, electronic mail, or by facsimile transmission, contacting Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP or any of its attorneys does not create an attorney-client...more
Warner’s Employee Benefits Practice Group is pleased to present a webinar series on significant new retirement plan legislation, the SECURE Act 2.0. While we expect implementing the new law to take several years, some...more
The President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which included SECURE Act 2.0, on December 29, 2022. SECURE Act 2.0 has over 90 provisions, some major and some minor; some mandatory and some optional; some...more
As widely reported, the president recently signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (CAA 2023), a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, which contains significant provisions affecting employer-sponsored...more
Join partners from McDermott’s Employee Benefits team as they discuss the impact of the recently passed SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. With over 90 changes to retirement plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs), this webinar...more
In the final days of 2022, after months of back and forth, Congress adopted a myriad of law changes for qualified retirement plans, collectively known as the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”). SECURE 2.0 builds on the...more
The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 was enacted at the end of last year as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. The act sets forth a number of changes affecting retirement plans that go into effect over several years....more
New legislation commonly called “SECURE 2.0” was passed by Congress last week and signed into law on Tuesday by President Biden. The new legislation includes almost 100 different changes that are linked to retirement plans. ...more
On December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which includes the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0). SECURE 2.0 is an expansion of the Setting Every Community Up for...more
After months of on-again off-again consideration of competing bills, US Congress capitalized on bipartisan support for retirement plan legislation to deliver the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE Act 2.0) as part of the year-end...more
The SECURE Act introduced the concept of a “long-term, part-time employee.” Starting in 2021, 401(k) plans are going to need to consider these employees for eligibility, vesting, and company contribution purposes, as they...more
All 401(k) retirement plans have special age and service rules that employees have to meet to become eligible to participate and to vest in employer contributions to those plans. In Notice 2020-68, the IRS explains the new...more
A December 27, 2019 post to this blog by Jon Nason provided an overview of the many changes affecting retirement plans made by the SECURE Act, which was enacted as part of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020...more
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, will have a wide-ranging impact on tax-qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts,...more
On December 20, 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”) was signed into law. The SECURE Act implements new rules for creating and maintaining retirement plans. Plan...more