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Internal Revenue Service New Guidance Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System

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More Discretion, More Documentation: Recovering Overpayments Under Secure 2.0

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Under SECURE 2.0, plan sponsors were granted discretion to determine whether or not the plan would recoup "inadvertent benefit overpayments." However, SECURE 2.0, did not define the term, leaving implementation of the new...more

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What Employers Need to Know About SECURE 2.0

The Senate ushered in the New Year with a bang by passing SECURE 2.0 on December 22, 2022. SECURE 2.0 includes many updates to the sweeping changes brought about under 2019’s original SECURE Act legislation...more

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Revenue Procedure 2021-30: A New and (Further) Improved EPCRS

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The Internal Revenue Service has updated the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) in several respects that will be helpful to retirement plan sponsors. Revenue Procedure 2021-30, published July 16, 2021,...more

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E-P-C-R-S, find out what it means to me … new IRS Correction Guidance

On July 16, 2021, the IRS released updated Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) guidance for Plan corrections in the form of Rev. Proc. 2021-30. The changes affect the three programs offered by the IRS for...more

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IRS Expands Self-Correction under EPCRS and Adds New Overpayment Correction Methods

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On Friday, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30 expanding the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”)—a voluntary program for correcting errors in tax-qualified and section 403(b) plans—by adding two new...more

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IRS Expands Self-Correction Program

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On April 19, 2019, the IRS issued Rev. Proc. 2019-19, updating its Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”) which permits retirement plan sponsors and administrators to correct compliance failures that may...more

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Revenue Procedure 2019-19: Enhancements to EPCRS are Great News for Plan Sponsors

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Newly published Revenue Procedure 2019-19 modifies and supersedes prior IRS guidance regarding the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) to allow plan sponsors to self-correct an expanded number of problems that...more

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New IRS Qualified Plan Corrections Guidance

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued two rounds of guidance modifying the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS). The IRS guidance gives employers greater flexibility in correcting relatively common...more

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IRS Relaxes Correction Requirements for Elective Deferral (But Not After-Tax Contribution) Failures under EPCRS

Less than a week after issuing significant modifications to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) (as described in our March 31, 2015 blog), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) further modified EPCRS through...more

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