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
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Virginia Launches New Retirement Savings Program
Last year, we alerted you to the filing of several class action lawsuits alleging that plan fiduciaries violated their duties of prudence and loyalty under Title I of ERISA by using forfeitures to reduce employer...more
Conflicting orders on motions to dismiss from two California courts foreshadow issues for a new theory of ERISA liability. Employers have faced a recent wave of novel ERISA class actions that challenge the reallocation of...more
On March 29, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued its decision in Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Event Media, Inc. In a matter of first impression for...more
Pension-Linked Emergency Savings Accounts (“PLESAs”) are a special retirement plan feature created under SECURE ACT 2.0. PLESAs were first permitted to be made available to participants as of January 1, 2024. PLESAs, which...more
In the final quarter of 2023, South Africa issued guidance on the new two-pot retirement system, Peru launched a new holiday starting in 2024, Singapore doubled its paid paternity leave, and Costa Rica reformed its pension...more
All Canadian employers other than those in Quebec are required to: Deduct Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions from their employees’ pensionable earnings if the employee meets certain conditions; Contribute an...more
Introduction The General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) recently introduced a significant change in the pension landscape through Federal Decree-Law No. 57 of 2023 on Pension and Social Security. This legal...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS just announced the 2024 annual limits that will apply to tax-qualified retirement plans. For a third year in a row, the IRS increased the annual limits, allowing participants to save even more in...more
Provident funds, or government-administered retirement funds, were introduced as a form of “social protection” to alleviate poverty at the time of retirement. Most social programs at the time did not provide enough to cover...more
On June 22, 2023, Bill C-47 received royal assent, implementing a variety of amendments to the Income Tax Act (Canada) (ITA) and its regulations (ITA Regulations) tabled as part of the 2023 Federal Budget. As we previously...more
For decades, it was common for employers to maintain employer-funded defined benefit pension plans (“DB Plans” or “Plans”) to provide retirement benefits to their employees. In recent years, DB Plans have become increasingly...more
Warner’s Employee Benefits Practice Group is pleased to present a webinar series on significant new retirement plan legislation, the SECURE Act 2.0. While we expect implementing the new law to take several years, some...more
In a prior alert, we detailed how the Interim Final Rule (IFR) from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) regarding the special financial assistance (SFA) provided under American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) would...more
Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales hat den Referentenentwurf zur Anpassung der Grenzwerte für die Sozialversicherung vorgelegt. Nachdem die Werte im vergangenen Jahr stagnierten, steigen die Werte für 2023 wieder...more
What You Need to Know About Draft Amendments to the Federal Income Tax Act and Regulations - On February 4, 2022, the Canadian federal government released draft legislation to implement a variety of proposed tax measures,...more
On January 31, 2022, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s finding that surcharges imposed by the Pension Protection Act (“PPA”) are excluded from the determination of an employer’s “highest contribution rate” for...more
On Friday January 8, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) published a final rule that provides multiemployer pension plans with additional methods to help calculate employer withdrawal liability. The rule includes...more
On December 11, 2020, Quebec’s National Assembly adopted Bill 68, with certain amendments made to its original text, thereby enacting An Act mainly to allow the establishment of target benefit pension plans (Act). The...more
On October 7, 2020, Bill 68, An Act mainly to allow the establishment of target benefit pension plans (Bill 68), was tabled at Quebec’s National Assembly by the province’s Minister of Finance, Éric Girard. Bill 68’s main...more
If you’re a small employer with a 401(k) plan, you might save some money and provide a more professional level of administrative support by joining a Pooled Employer Plan (PEP). Unrelated employers have always been able to...more
Rock of Ages - The Arithmathean Pension Plan is a creative idea on how to use a pooled income fund as a version of non-qualified deferred compensation. Provide a lifetime annuity of tax-free distributions for key employees!...more
On September 21, 2020, the Ontario government filed O. Reg. 520/20 (Regulation), which, among other things, permits employers of certain pension plans to elect to defer one or more consecutive monthly payments of employer...more
On June 24, 2020, the Government of Alberta issued Order in Council 190/2020 to amend the Employment Pension Plans Regulation (Regulation) to provide additional forms of relief to administrators of Alberta-registered pension...more
Effective May 27, 2020, new Solvency Special Payments Relief Regulations, 2020 issued under the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 provide funding relief to sponsors of federally regulated pension plans with solvency...more