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April 1, 2024
The March Monthly Minute digs into an Ohio district court ruling that rejected application of a medical plan exclusion, missing participant guidance and related audit concerns, and...
May 24, 2023
Administering a 401(k) plan is a team effort, requiring the expertise of HR staff, the plan's recordkeeper, and an ERISA attorney. When a company that sponsors a 401(k) or other retirement plan sells the business...
May 16, 2023
Administering a 401(k) plan is a team effort, requiring the expertise of HR staff, the plan’s recordkeeper, and an ERISA attorney. When a company that sponsors a 401(k) or other...
May 16, 2023
Administering a 401(k) plan is a team effort, requiring the expertise of HR staff, the plan’s recordkeeper, and an ERISA attorney. When a company…
April 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor DOL recently issued important guidance for retirement plan sponsors and fiduciaries on their obligations to find missing participants
February 18, 2021
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: By now, you’ve probably read about the Department of Labors new guidance on locating missing retirement plan participants. And, as you’re probably already aware, missing participants (and beneficiaries) 1 can be a real headache for plan sponsors – delaying both payment of required distributions (payments at normal retirement age, small balance cashouts, required minimum distributions, etc.) and distribution of required plan dis...
February 3, 2021
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 12, 2021, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a 3-part set of missing participant guidance for employer-sponsored retirement plans, addressing a variety of issues: Best practices for reducing missing participant populations; Explanation of the DOL’s goals and process in missing participant audits under the Terminated Vested Participant Project; and Authority for fiduciaries of terminating defined contribution plans to us...
January 23, 2021
On January 18, we published a blog post regarding new Department of Labor (“DOL”) guidance on missing plan participants. That post is available here, and describes the DOL’s guidance on...