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Pensions: DC trustee update for July 2024 meetings

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

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Pension: what's new this week 4 March 2024

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This week we cover the following topics: Government consults on options for DB schemes; HRMC pension schemes newsletter; FRC begins first phase of UK Stewardship Code review; TPR publishes report on 2023 DB survey...more

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Pensions: DC trustee agenda update - March 2024

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

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Pensions: what's new this week - 22 January 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: Updates to the...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 11 December 2023

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: PASA guidance on...more

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Pensions UK: Joint DB/DC trustee agenda update - for March 2021 meetings

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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

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Hybrid Plan Filing Reprieve…. Sort of

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS published guidance in its Employee Plans newsletter on August 24, 2020, allowing incomplete determination letter applications to be filed by August 31, 2020, with an opportunity to supplement the...more

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IRS Reopens Determination Letter Program for Certain Individually Designed Plans

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In 2017, the IRS significantly limited the ability of plan sponsors to request a determination letter that its individually-designed retirement plan met the tax qualification requirements of the Internal Revenue Code. Since...more

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Pensions: Joint DB/DC trustee agenda update - for January 2020 meetings

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For January 2020 meetings - 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...more

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Joint DB/DC trustee agenda update - for December 2019 meetings

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Welcome to our monthly trustee agenda briefing covering DB and DC-related developments. It is designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings, and to support the legal update item on your...more

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Right Around the Corner: Expanded IRS Determination Letter Program Opens in September

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Beginning September 1, 2019, the IRS is expanding its retirement plan determination letter program to apply to certain individually designed statutory hybrid and merged plans. Employers sponsoring hybrid plans not previously...more

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Compensation and Benefits Insights – July 2019

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In May 2019, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2019-20, which provides for a limited expansion of the determination letter program for certain individually-designed plans. Under this expansion, the IRS will accept...more

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A Welcome Expansion: IRS Resuscitates Determination Letter Program

Beginning September 1, 2019, employers that sponsor cash balance plans and certain merged plans can sleep easier. Revenue Procedure 2019-20, issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on May 1, 2019, opens the IRS’s...more

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Should I Be Getting an Updated IRS Determination Letter?

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If you maintain a qualified retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or pension plan, that covers more than 100 employees, you are likely in the midst of your annual plan audit. During this process, your auditor might ask for a copy...more

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IRS Reopens Determination Letter Program for Hybrid and Merged Plans

Employers have new opportunity to obtain IRS approval of individually designed plan documents. Individually designed cash balance plans and other “statutory hybrid” pension plans can be submitted for IRS approval during...more

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Limited Ability to Submit Your Individually Designed Plan for a Determination Letter

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• Effective Sept. 1, 2019, the sponsors of certain retirement plans may submit their plans to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for review of a determination letter application. • Revenue Procedure 2019-20 expands the IRS...more

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IRS Announces Limited Expansion of the Determination Letter Program for Individually Designed Plans

Since the end of the IRS’s cyclical determination letter program for individually designed retirement plans in 2017, plan sponsors have been able to request favorable determination letters for individually designed plans only...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

IRS Implements Prospective Expansion of Determination Letter Program to Merged Plans

The IRS has announced a limited expansion of its determination letter program. Beginning Sept. 1, 2019, the IRS will accept determination letter (“DL”) applications for individually designed merged plans....more

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IRS Determination Letter Program Broadens Its Reach

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On May 1, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced an expansion of the existing determination letter submission program. Previously the IRS has only allowed submissions of initial retirement plan qualifications and plan...more

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IRS Announces Limited Expansion of its Determination Letter Program for Individually Designed Retirement Plans – But Questions...

On May 1, 2019, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2019-20 which provides for a limited-scope expansion of its determination letter program for individually designed plans. Beginning on September 1, 2019, the IRS will accept...more

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Joint DB and DC trustee agenda update: current legal issues - December 2018

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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

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Joint DB and DC trustee agenda update - current legal issues October 2018

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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

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Joint DB and DC trustee agenda update: current legal issues September 2018

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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...more

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The Pension Regulator: online materials for trustees of occupational pension schemes

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The Pensions Regulator (tPR) has issued a multitude of codes of practice, guidance notes and other documents to assist pension scheme trustees to understand and better perform their role. However, knowing what help is...more

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