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Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Church Plans

McGuireWoods LLP

Senior Living Alert – Church Plan Status: Employee Benefit Plan Administration for Senior Living Facilities Associated With...

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For employers that sponsor and administer employee benefit plans, various pieces of federal legislation create a multilayered regime of detailed regulatory requirements. Primarily, employer-sponsored benefit plans are...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The New Principal (Purpose Organization) Question in the Ongoing Church Plan Litigation: Does the Committee “Maintain” the Plan? -...

Last year, in Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a special type of “church plan,” intended to be exempt from Title I of ERISA and many Internal Revenue Code requirements, does not...more

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Voluntary Compliance with ERISA Does Not Preclude Church Plan Status

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The IRS has once again confirmed that an employee benefit plan maintained by a church or church-affiliated organization is not subject to ERISA unless the plan sponsor makes an affirmative written election to have ERISA apply...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Supreme Court Clarifies Limits to ERISA Church Plan Exemption

On March 27, 2017, the then 8 Supreme Court Justices heard oral arguments for three consolidated cases regarding the outer bounds of the “church plan” exception under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974...more

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Individually Designed Retirement Plans and the New IRS Determination Letter Program

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A qualified retirement plan (hereinafter a “Plan”) must satisfy the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) in form and in operation. In other words, the documents establishing and governing the Plan must satisfy...more

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