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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers on Hurricanes and Other Workplace Disasters: 2024 Edition

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This detailed set of Frequently Asked Questions, fully updated for 2024, addresses the workplace-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters. In addition to legal obligations you need to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Employers Under Fire: How to Address Employee Pay and Related Issues When Faced with Natural Disasters

As you have no doubt seen in the news, and may have even experienced first-hand, there have been extreme weather conditions throughout the country, including fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. When natural disasters...more

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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers on Hurricanes and Other Workplace Disasters: 2023 Edition

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This detailed set of Frequently Asked Questions, fully updated for 2023, addresses the workplace-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters. In addition to legal obligations you need to...more

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Diving Into SECURE 2.0: New and Potentially Easier Ways to Make Withdrawals from 401(k) Plans

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...Emergency Savings Accounts and Distributions - Brief overview. As reported previously, SECURE 2.0 permits but does not require plans to add emergency savings accounts beginning with the 2024 plan year, but only...more

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SECURE 2.0 Makes Several Key Changes for Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans

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On December 29, 2022, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, President Biden signed into law the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”). SECURE 2.0 makes many significant changes to the employer sponsored...more

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SECURE 2.0 Has Arrived - Here's What You Need to Know

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On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. This legislation includes the highly anticipated SECURE 2.0 Act, which expands and supplements the original SECURE Act of 2019....more

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Weekly IRS Roundup October 3 – October 7, 2022

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of October 3, 2022 – October 7, 2022...more

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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers on Hurricanes and Other Workplace Disasters: 2022 Edition

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This detailed set of Frequently Asked Questions, fully updated for 2022, addresses the workplace-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters. In addition to legal obligations you need to...more

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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Changes to Qualified Retirement Plans and Certain Fringe Benefits

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Employee Fringe Benefit Changes - Student Loan Repayment - The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) extended the period during which an employer may pay a portion of a student’s loan under an educational...more

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IRS Confirms Major Disaster Leave-Sharing Program Use for COVID-19 Pandemic

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On August 3, 2020, the IRS posted a short set of frequently asked questions for leave-sharing programs which confirm that major disaster leave-sharing programs under IRS Notice 2006-59 can be used for employees who have been...more

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Comprehensive FAQs For Employers On Hurricanes And Other Workplace Disasters

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This article addresses many employment-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters; consequently, in addition to federal laws, we also focus on certain state laws, especially those in the areas...more

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Puerto Rico Treasury Department Issues Post-Earthquake Rules for Qualified Retirement Plan and IRA Distributions and Loans

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On February 20, 2020, the Puerto Rico Treasury Department (PR Treasury) issued Internal Revenue Circular Letter Number 20-09 (CC RI 20-09) to provide special rules and procedures applicable to distributions from qualified...more

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401(k) and 403(b) plans must be updated January 1, 2020

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The IRS recently issued final regulations to standardize the administration of hardship distributions. Plans that permit hardship distributions must implement operational changes for hardship distributions by January 1, 2020,...more

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IRS Finalizes Hardship Withdrawal Regulations

Not all 401(K) and other qualified plans allow hardship withdrawals, but if your plan does allow hardship withdrawals, make sure it is compliant with the new rules finalized in September.   All of the changes are optional for...more

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Final Hardship Distribution Regulations, Part Three: New Disaster Relief and Expanded Sources Available for Hardship Distributions

The IRS recently released final regulations making a number of changes to the rules applicable to hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. Concluding our three-part series on the final regulations, this blog entry...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

IRS Finalizes Revised Hardship Regulations - Employee Benefits Alert

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has finalized revisions to the regulations governing hardship distributions under 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The final regulations make some subtle but important changes to the regulations...more

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Plan Amendment Deadline Approaching for Plans That Implemented Hardship Changes in 2018 and 2019

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Retirement plan sponsors that implemented hardship distribution changes and other disaster relief in 2018 and 2019 probably have to amend their plan documents by the end of this year if they haven’t done so already. We...more

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IRS Updates Operational Compliance List for Qualified Retirement Plans

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The IRS has published its Operational Compliance List for 2019, which reflects legislative or regulatory changes that may impact the administration of qualified retirement plans. Generally, plan amendments incorporating...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Committee on Ways and Means Releases Tax and Oversight Bill

On Nov. 26, 2018, the Committee on Ways and Means released the tax and oversight package. The bill includes... ...more

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IRS Proposes New Hardship Distribution Regulations; Regulations to Prohibit Deferral Suspensions Beginning 2020 and Provide a New...

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The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has issued proposed regulations that would change the rules for hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The hardship distribution rules allow participants in these plans who...more

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Puerto Rico Treasury Department Extends Period to Make Hurricane-Related Retirement Plan Distributions

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Last year, the Puerto Rico Department of the Treasury (the “PR Treasury”) issued Administrative Determination Number 17-29 (“AD 17-29”) to provide rules and procedures for allowing distributions from an IRA or a Puerto Rico...more

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New Retirement Plan Design Opportunities Introduced by Recent Legislation

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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the “Budget Act”), which was adopted February 9, 2018, together with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”), which was adopted on December 22, 2017, and the Disaster Tax Relief and...more

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Tax and Budget Bills Include Tax Qualified Retirement Plan Provisions

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The tax bill enacted late last year (Public Law No. 115-97) and the budget bill enacted earlier this month (the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018) included a handful of changes to the rules applicable to tax-qualified retirement...more

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Massive Budget Deal Includes Important Changes To Hardship Withdrawal Rules

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On Friday, February 9, 2018, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the “Act”) was signed into law by President Trump, ending a brief government shutdown that began at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, February 8, 2018. In addition to...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Recent Legislation Impacts Qualified Retirement Plans

On February 9, 2018, Congress passed and the President signed – the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, H.R.1892 (“BBA”). In addition to funding the federal government through March 23, 2018, the BBA contains a number of tax...more

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