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Carlton Fields

Auto-Portability Providers Racing to Close Retirement Plan Gap

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For decades, both the federal and state governments have been working to tackle the coverage gaps in our retirement system. In the race for retirement readiness, dark horses like state plans with mandatory adoption...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New IRS SECURE 2.0 Act Guidance

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published Notice 2024-2, which provides guidance on several sections of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. This article highlights some of the more significant changes affecting retirement...more

Stinson - Benefits Notes Blog

Agencies Issue Additional Guidance Regarding Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Test Coverage

As indicated in our January 11, 2022 blog post and alert, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (the “Agencies”) issued FAQs Part 51 on January 10, 2022, requiring group health...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

There’s More! Tri-Agencies Provide Clarifying Guidance on Group Health Plan Coverage of Over-the-Counter At-Home COVID-19 Tests

A few short weeks ago we told you in a blog post that, with only four days’ notice, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and HHS (the Departments) required that, starting January 15, 2022, group health plans cover FDA-approved...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup January 11 – January 15, 2021

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of January 11, 2021 – January 15, 2021... January 11, 2021: The IRS released TD 9948 containing...more

Snell & Wilmer

IRS Clarifies SECURE Act Changes to Qualified Automatic Contribution Arrangements

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The IRS recently published Notice 2020-86 (the “Notice”), which provides clarification with respect to certain changes made by the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”). In...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

IRS Expands And Clarifies Relief Provided For CARES Act Retirement Plan Distributions

On June 19, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2020-50 (the Notice) to provide guidance on coronavirus-related distributions, increased plan loan limits, and deferment of plan loan repayments allowed...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The Inefficient Plan Design

When you start fixing up the house (for me, a never-ending battle) and replacing appliances or items like the front door or the roof (that was me last week), you realize that the replacements are more energy efficient....more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

401(k) Plan Mid-Year Reduction or Suspension of Safe Harbor Contributions: What Can Employers Do?

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Over the past several years, many employers have adopted a safe harbor contribution feature for their 401(k) retirement plan. Employers anticipating or experiencing financial stress triggered by the COVID-19 related business...more

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

SECURE Act Brings Many Retirement Plan Changes

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On December 20, 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (SECURE Act) was signed into law. The SECURE Act is one of the most significant pieces of legislation impacting retirement plans in...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

SECURE Act May Pave Way to More Lifetime Income Opportunities in Defined Contribution Plans

Ever since defined contribution plans have come to dominate the retirement plan landscape, both plan sponsors and policymakers have grappled with how to help employees take a lifetime’s worth of savings and convert it into a...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE Act – Impact on 401(k) Plan Sponsors

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), the largest package of retirement system reforms in over a decade, was enacted on December 20, 2019. ...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

SECURE Act Makes Significant Changes to Benefits Laws (UPDATED)

The SECURE Act—potentially the most impactful benefits legislation since the Pension Protection Act of 2006—was included in the bipartisan spending bill signed into law on December 20, 2019. The SECURE Act includes provisions...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Lifetime Income Provisions Under the SECURE Act

As the U.S. private retirement system has largely shifted away from traditional pensions in favor of a defined contribution plan savings model, a number of policymakers have expressed concerns over whether participants’...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

SECURE Act: Changes Exclusive to 401(k) Plans

The SECURE Act, included as part of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, was signed into law on December 20, 2019. This post highlights changes that are exclusive to 401(k) plans...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

SECURE Act Modifies Retirement Plan Distribution Rules

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New legislation impacting retirement plans and their participants was signed into law by President Trump on December 20, 2019. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the “SECURE Act”) is one of the...more

Troutman Pepper

The SECURE Act Brings Significant Changes for Retirement Plans and IRAs

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law on Dec. 20, 2019, will have a wide-ranging impact on tax-qualified retirement plans and individual retirement accounts,...more

King & Spalding

Compensation and Benefits Insights – January 2020

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On December 20, 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”) was signed into law. The SECURE Act implements new rules for creating and maintaining retirement plans. Plan...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The SECURE Act: Top 3 Issues to Consider Now

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Hundreds of articles have been published over the last two weeks about the SECURE Act (“Act”), which was signed into law in late December as part of the most recent budget bill. As you are certainly aware by now, the Act...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE Act and Spending Bills – Impact on Plan Sponsors

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), the largest package of retirement system reforms in over a decade, was enacted on December 20, 2019.  Many of the provisions in the...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Recent Changes In Employee Benefits Law - What You Need To Know For 2020

In the past few months, we have seen significant changes to the laws governing employee benefits, from the new hardship withdrawal regulations for 401(k) participants, to the SECURE Act, to the new individual coverage health...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE Act Requires Immediate Action by Plan Service Providers

Congress recently passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), the largest package of retirement system reforms in over a decade.  Many of the provisions in the SECURE Act...more

Epstein Becker & Green

What Employers Should Know About the SECURE Act’s Lifetime Income Provisions

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Predictable lifetime income is often of paramount concern to retirees. Yet, as employer-sponsored retirement plans have moved away from the traditional pension plan model, participants in defined contribution plans may be...more

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SECURE Act Provides Sweeping and Immediate Changes to Retirement Plans

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On Friday, December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”) as part of a spending bill to fund the government through September 30, 2020 (H.R....more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

New Retirement Distribution Rules Begin in 2020: The SECURE Act Giveth and Taketh Away: Pullman & Comley

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The first important new law impacting retirement distributions in over a decade was enacted on December 20, 2019 as the SECURE Act (“Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019”). ...more

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