PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Tax Relief and Possible Retirement Plan Resources for Hurricane Victims
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - New IRS Guidance on SECURE 2.0 Act Student Loan Employer Contributions
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - ERISA Forfeiture Litigation
La Reforma Pensional en Colombia
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Understanding Lifetime Income Products
Multiemployer Pension Plans in Mergers and Acquisitions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Trends in Recordkeeper Consolidation and Due Diligence
Long-Term Part-Time Employee Eligibility Rules Now in Effect — Troutman Pepper Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - What the J&J Case Means for Plan Administrators
#WorkforceWednesday: SECURE 2.0 Act - Navigating New Retirement Plan Provisions in 2024 - Employment Law This Week®
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - SECURE 2.0: Leveraging Opportunities Employees Want Most
What Can A Tax Attorney Do For You? A Podcast With Janathan Allen
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Understanding Fees in Retirement Planning
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - ESG Investing by Retirement Plans
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - New Federal Rule Aims to Hold Investment Advisors to a Higher Standard
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Health and Welfare Plan Developments — Special Edition Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Qualified Plans — Special Edition Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Auto-Portability: A New Way to Keep Retirement Savings Growing
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - IRS 2024 Health Plan Affordability Threshold May Put Some at Risk
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Partial Plan Terminations
During our October 30, 2024 webinar, “It’s 2024 and … It’s Decision Time in the Retirement Plan World!” we polled our audience on their interest in adding optional features available under Secure Act 2.0 (discussed in our...more
Kilpatrick partner Sterling Perkinson and counsel San Parikh recently presented a CLE webinar for Strafford that focused on the 2024 Final Regulations and 2024 Proposed Regulations released on July 19, 2024, implementing the...more
The IRS recently published its final regulations addressing changes to Tax Code Section 401(a)(9), relating to required minimum distributions (RMDs), under the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations for required minimum distributions (RMDs) from certain retirement plans, including tax-qualified plans, Internal Revenue Code (Code) section 403(b) plans,...more
On July 18, 2024, the IRS finalized changes to the regulations governing required minimum distributions (“RMDs”) to reflect changes made by the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Act of 2019 (“SECURE Act”) and SECURE...more
At long last, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued final (and new proposed) regulations that address the major changes to Code section 401(a)(9) under the Setting Every Community Up for...more
On July 18th, the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations regarding required minimum distributions (RMDs) from retirement accounts. The final regulations reflect changes to the Internal Revenue Code made by the...more
Beginning in 2024, due to new rules within the SECURE Act 2.0, federal law now allows for up to $35,000 in a 529 account to be rolled over to a Roth individual retirement account (“IRA”) for the beneficiary of the 529...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently extended relief with respect to certain post-death required minimum distributions (RMDs) under Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9)....more
Five years ago, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”) made several significant changes to certain distributions required pursuant to Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section...more
On December 6, the House Ways and Means, House Education and the Workforce, Senate Finance, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committees released a discussion draft of technical corrections and other clarifications...more
This post summarizes provisions of SECURE 2.0 that retirement plans may need or want to implement for 2024. While no amendments are required for plans heading into 2024, plan operations may see some updates, especially if the...more
If you were born before 1951, remember that you must take your required minimum distributions (RMDs) from funds held in individual retirement arrangements (IRAs) and other retirement plans before the end of the year. ...more
In July of 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, also known as the SECURE Act, changed the rules pertaining to 401(k), Roth, IRA, and other retirement savings plans. In December of 2022, the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Notice 2023-54 (“Notice”) that provides relief from Code Sec. 401(a)(9) required minimum distribution (“RMD”) compliance for certain 2023 lifetime and post-death distributions to...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
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0) was enacted in December 2022 as part of the year-end omnibus spending bill. Even though several provisions were effective in 2023, the...more
The SECURE Act 2.0 brings a slate of changes to retirement accounts and the way workers save for retirement. A summary of the Act can be found on the US Senate Finance Committee website....more
Last week, the IRS issued Notice 2023-54 (“Notice”) that provides a variety of relief for both plan sponsors and IRA providers, along with participants/IRA owners and their beneficiaries, while we await the final Code section...more
The IRS provided more transitional relief in Notice 2023-54 (“2023 Notice”) for certain required minimum distributions (“RMDs”). The 2023 Notice extends the transitional relief that the IRS previously issued in Notice...more
Generally, it’s advantageous to keep funds in your retirement accounts for as long as possible. Indeed, the longer you refrain from withdrawing funds, the longer they have to continue tax-deferred growth....more
This post summarizes the new distribution options, including penalty-free withdrawals, applicable to defined contribution plans under the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) and provides a timeline of their effective dates....more
SECURE 2.0, which was included as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, was signed into law in late December 2022. The statute contains 92 substantive sections making reforms to a broad array of...more
The original Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE Act), enacted in 2019, was a significant law related to retirement savings. In the spring of 2022, with an eye toward building on the reforms in...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law The Securing a Strong Retirement Act, known as the “Secure Act 2.0”. This legislation includes provisions from the House of Representative’s initial version of Secure Act...more