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Pensions: what's new this week - July 15 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. Court of Appeal: member 'interests' include future service...more

A&O Shearman

Pensions: Joint DB & DC trustee agenda update - April 2024

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings, and to support the legal update item on...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - February 2024

The February Monthly Minute discusses a class action suit alleging a breach of fiduciary duties in connection with ERISA benefit plan prescription drug pricing and the latest IRS guidance on defined contribution plan...more

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Proposed Regulations Regarding Long-Term, Part-Time Employees

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Newly issued IRS Proposed Regulations regarding the special eligibility and vesting requirements for long-term, part-time employees provide guidance that 401(k) plan sponsors have been waiting for since these requirements...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

IRS Announces Transition Period for Roth Catch-Up Contributions

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced a two-year administrative transition period that delays until 2026 the new rule that catch-up contributions made by certain higher‑income participants in 401(k), 403(b), and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

IRS Announces 2022 Retirement Plan Limits

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced the cost-of-living adjustments to the applicable dollar limits for retirement plans for 2022. Most of the dollar limits currently in effect for 2021 will increase, with...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE Act Testing Relief for Closed/Frozen Defined Benefit Plans

In recent years, many defined benefit (“DB”) pension plan sponsors have taken action to limit ongoing coverage and benefit accruals of their DB plans.  Over time these plans may have difficulty continuing to satisfy the...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

403(b) plans: Some basics, then time for action!

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Remember in 2009 when the IRS required all plan sponsors to adopt written plan documents for their 403(b) plans? That was fun and the beginning of a shift for employers to take an active role in administering 403(b) plans....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

401(k)/403(b) Loan Borrowers – Check Your Paystubs!

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A recent tax court case, Louelia Salomon Frias, v. Commissioner, TC Memo 2017-139, illustrates why it is good practice to verify that employee loan repayments have been timely deducted. Plan Loan Requirements. An employer...more

Nexsen Pruet, PLLC

Tax and Employee Benefits Alert: Important April 30, 2016 Deadline to Adopt Updated Pre-Approved Defined Contribution Retirement...

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All employers who are using a pre-approved form for their 401(k), profit sharing, or other defined contribution plan must sign updated documents on or before April 30, 2016 to preserve the tax-qualified status of the plan. ...more

King & Spalding

September and October 2015 Filing and Notice Deadlines for Qualified Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans

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Employers and plan sponsors must comply with numerous filing and notice deadlines for their retirement and health and welfare plans. Failure to comply with these deadlines can result in costly penalties. To avoid such...more

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August and September 2015 Filing and Notice Deadlines for Qualified Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans

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Employers and plan sponsors must comply with numerous filing and notice deadlines for their retirement and health and welfare plans. Failure to comply with these deadlines can result in costly penalties. To avoid such...more

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July and August 2015 Filing and Notice Deadlines for Qualified Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans

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Employers and plan sponsors must comply with numerous filing and notice deadlines for their retirement and health and welfare plans. Failure to comply with these deadlines can result in costly penalties. To avoid such...more

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ERISA Section 4062(e) Significantly Reformed Effective December 16, 2014

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On December 16, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, which contains provisions that significantly reform ERISA Section 4062(e). The new law is meant to ensure that...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Employee Benefits: ERISA Fiduciary Guidance - Fairness for Defined Contribution Fees (6/14)

There has been a tremendous amount of focus on participant-assessed fees in 401(k) and 403(b) plans over the last couple of years. This has come about, in part, because of lawsuits and the Department of Labor (DOL)...more

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