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Foley & Lardner LLP

To 457(b) or Not to 457(b): Five Rules You Must Follow to Keep Your 457(b) Plan Compliant

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Recruiting and retaining top executives can be challenging for non-governmental tax-exempt organizations such as Code §501(c)(3) organizations, private universities, and certain healthcare organizations (Nonprofits). Not only...more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

Deferred Compensation Arrangements for Non-Profits: What I’ve Felt, What I’ve Known, Is Not Consistent with the Code

Deferred compensation options for executives of tax-exempt entities are often misunderstood by those organizations who have not previously delved into them. Traditional tax-exempt organizations – think charities and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

IRS Releases 2024 Cost-of-Living Adjusted Limits for Benefit Plans

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced 2024 dollar limits for qualified retirement plans (including 401(k) plans), deferred compensation plans, and health and welfare plans. Adjustments to certain limits are based on...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Retirement Plans: Will January 1, 2024 Effective Date for Age 50 Catch-Up Contribution Changes Be Delayed?

Section 401(k) Plans, Section 403(b) Plans and governmental Section 457(b) Plans generally permit employees to defer compensation on a pre-tax basis. These plans may also provide the opportunity for employees to defer...more

Snell & Wilmer

2021 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 2) Annual Cost of Living Adjustments

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As is tradition, we are happy to present our End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. We are publishing our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end health and welfare plan issues. This...more

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Do the New IRS Nonqualified Plan Audit Guidelines Mean Section 409A Audits are Coming?

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The IRS updated its Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Audit Techniques Guide (the “2021 Guide”) in June 2021. The 2021 Guide replaces a similar guide that was published in June 2015. The 2021 Guide does not shed new...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

[Webinar] The Biden Administration: What Businesses Need to Know - Tax Changes on the Horizon with the Biden Administration -...

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The Biden administration is signaling significant policy shifts. Business owners and C-Suite executives are encouraged to join us for a series of complimentary webcasts discussing these likely changes and how they will impact...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Leaving New York? Plan For The Taxation Of Deferred Compensation

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Into the Fire- Let’s play a game of “Guess Who?” Here are the clues: •the legislature has called for an investigation into his mishandling of the crisis brought on by the pandemic, •he has stated that he doesn’t...more

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Order of Benefit Deductions from Employee Pay

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From time to time we field questions about the order in which deductions for various employee benefits (e.g., 401(k) plan elective deferrals and insurance premiums for welfare benefit plan benefits) should be taken from an...more

Williams Mullen

PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Plan Administrators’ 2020 Year-End Checklist

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On the latest episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt is joined by colleague Nona Massengill to discuss important steps that plan administrators need to take before the end of 2020. They will...more

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December 31 Sunset of Safe Harbor Correction Method for Certain Elective Deferral Failures Benefits Law Update

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A special IRS-approved correction method available for elective deferral failures in 401(k) and 403(b) plans with automatic contribution features will sunset on December 31, 2020, meaning it will not be available to correct...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Possible Options for Participant Relief Under Section 409A Plans in the Time of Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has caused widespread economic uncertainty and unanticipated liquidity issues for a wide range of individuals, including plan participants of nonqualified deferred compensation plans. In these...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Mid-Year Retirement Benefits Update

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The Internal Revenue Service has been busy issuing guidance over the last month or so on various retirement benefit issues. We want to be sure you are aware of these important updates. Retirement plan and IRA liquidity...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

IRS Guidance Permits Certain Individuals Affected by COVID-19 to Cancel NQDC Plan Deferral Elections

Under IRS Notice 2020-50, employers sponsoring nonqualified deferred compensation plans (NQCD plans) may now allow employees to suspend their deferral elections without having to determine whether the employee has had an...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

IRS Issues CARES Act Guidance for Coronavirus-Related Distributions and Loans From Tax-Qualified Plans; Also Allows Cancellation...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) provides sponsors of 401(k) and other tax-qualified retirement plans with tools to give their employees who are affected by COVID-19 greater access to their...more

Jackson Walker

Additional Clarity for Employers and Retirement Plan Administrators on Coronavirus Relief Under the CARES Act

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After the CARES Act was enacted, plan administrators had questions regarding how to determine if a participant is eligible to receive a Coronavirus distribution, Coronavirus loan, or delay of loan payments because a...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

DOL Relief for Late Salary Deferral Deposits

As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, I have consistently said that plan sponsors still have their fiduciary duties to fulfill in terms of their sponsorship of the plan and their deposit of salary deferrals as soon as...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

401(k) Plans don’t have to be a period, they can be a comma

Too often brokers and financial advisors think about their client’s retirement plan needs and only think about the 401(k) plan. It’s understandable based on their lack of understanding of retirement plan basics, but it’s not...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans: Unforeseeable Emergency Withdrawals, Deferral Election Cancellations During COVID-19

Due to the economic and financial upheaval caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many employees are asking their employers if they are able to cancel their deferral elections and/or receive accelerated payments from...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Taking Advantage of Governmental Retirement Plan Contribution Limits

Many governmental 457(b) deferred compensation and 401(a) defined contribution plan sponsors do not take full advantage of the contribution limits for these plans. To do this, you need to understand: the limits, who they...more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

The Long and Winding Road… of 401(k) plan compensation definitions

A plan’s definition of “compensation” tends to be one of the trickier aspects of 401(k) administration. Having been asked multiple times in the past 12-months whether deferrals to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Ways To Correct Governmental Plan Problems

There are several tools that can be used to correct or fix governmental plan problems. First, some classification. Practically all the retirement plans we discuss are “tax-advantaged” in one form or another. However,...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Correct the late deferral issue correctly

Correcting your late deferrals by depositing them and making a contribution to make up for lost earnings in your 401(k) plan isn’t enough....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Final Regulations on Hardship Distributions: Not Much New News is Good News

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If your company sponsors a 401(k) or 403(b) plan that allows participants to take hardship distributions, you probably had a conversation with your plan recordkeeper last year about changes to the rules on hardship...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The 401(k) match-student loan program is becoming a big thing, at least marketing wise

Ever since the Internal Revenue Service opined that one particular 401(k) plan could use matching contributions instead to help employees pay off your student loans. On paper, a great idea since I love options. As with any...more

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