Businesses large and small are hustling to continue operations, manage cash flow and avoid layoffs and terminations if possible. We've been through this before and we're ready to share our employee benefits experience from past economic disruptions. ...
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Managing Retirement Plan Risk – What Executives, Directors and Business Owners Should Know
Officers, directors and business owners can have personal liability if the company’s retirement plans aren’t properly managed. Do you know who your plan fiduciaries are? Do you know if you’re one of them?
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The SECURE Act: Immediate and Long Term Impacts on Your 401(k) Plan
The SECURE Act, signed into law in December, immediately impacts 401(k) plans with provisions that became effective January 1st, and other provisions going into effect in later years. Here is an overview of the relevant changes.
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A DQ Tale – The Haunting Carryover of a Disqualifying Defect
A special "ChrERISAmas Story” for the benefits of our readers …
Here’s a tale that we heard from the end of 2018. It illustrates how retirement plan operational defects from years ago can cause plan qualification problems today — even if you never ...
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Hardship Distributions And Headaches Down The Road
Note: This article is a revised version of an article published by our law firm years ago. It has been updated to reflect statutory changes under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA) and proposed hardship distributions regulations published on ...
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Retirement Plan Compensation Failures: A Tale Of Two Errors
Retirement plan compensation failures are one of the top ten most common errors submitted to the IRS's Voluntary Compliance Program. In this podcast, Marcel Weiland discusses two scenarios of compensation failures in the area where we see it most ...
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