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2025 Revisions to the VFCP: Key Changes to Correction and Compliance Options

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Historically, the IRS' Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) has provided employers structured options for correcting retirement plan failures. Under this framework, certain operational errors qualified for...more

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Updated Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program for ERISA Plans Includes Self-Correction Features

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As announced in our previous HR Law Talk blog post, on January 15, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) published a much anticipated amended and restated version of the...more

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DOL Finalizes VFC Program Self-Correction Component for Late Deposits and Loan Failures

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On January 14, 2025, the US Department of Labor (“DOL”) released a final regulation revising its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction (“VFC”) Program and related prohibited transaction exemption (“PTE”) 2002-51 to add a...more

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DOL Releases Final Rule for Self-Correction Under the Voluntary Fiduciary Compliance Program

On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) released its long-awaited final rules regarding changes to the Voluntary Fiduciary Compliance Program (VFCP). The new...more

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If the Deadline for Self-Correcting Retirement Plan Errors Is Indefinite, Why Do I Have to Hurry?

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Section 305 of SECURE 2.0 added rules for self-correcting a new category of retirement plan errors under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“ECPRS”). Specifically, Section 305 allows an “eligible inadvertent...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Every Retirement Plan Needs Practices and Procedures for Self-Correction

Administering a retirement plan is a complicated task fraught with potential missteps. Fortunately, employers are now able to self-correct most errors and thereby avoid the considerable time and expense of filing an...more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

You Live, You Learn… Correcting “Qualification Failures” under the Self-Correction Program

The Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”), as set forth in Revenue Procedure 2021-30, allows plan sponsors to correct “Qualification Failures,” which are defined as any plan document, operational, demographic...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Diving Into SECURE 2.0: New DOL Lost and Found, Updates to EPCRS, and Delayed Implementation of Roth Catch-up Requirement

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The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0) significantly changes the legal and administrative compliance landscape for U.S. retirement plans. Foley & Lardner LLP is authoring a series of articles that take a “deep dive” into key...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Why Time is of the Essence More than Ever in Correcting Retirement Plan Errors

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Errors in retirement plans happen even to the most well-intentioned plan sponsors. Several decades ago, the IRS published the first version of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution Program (EPCRS), which outlines...more

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SECURE 2.0 Expands Self-Correction Under EPCRS

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Effective December 29, 2022, Section 305 of SECURE 2.0 expands the ability for plan sponsors to self-correct certain plan failures under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”). Section 305 of SECURE 2.0...more

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Self-Help: The IRS Provides Interim Guidance for Self-Correction under the SECURE Act 2.0

The IRS recently issued Notice 2023-43 providing new interim guidance for self-correction of plan errors. This guidance applies to corrections made prior to the anticipated issuance of revisions to the Employee Plans...more

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IRS Issues Interim Guidance Under Expanded EPCRS

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Recently, the IRS released Notice 2023-43, providing interim guidance on Section 305 of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, which expanded the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS), the system through which plan...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Treasury, IRS Issue Interim Guidance on SECURE 2.0 Act’s Changes to EPCRS

Recently issued Notice 2023-43 provides interim guidance on certain changes to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) made by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. In particular, the notice addresses how plan sponsors...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SECURE 2.0 Guidance Process Begins – Self Correction for Eligible Inadvertent Failures Is First Up

The IRS has issued interim guidance to address the changes made by section 305 of SECURE 2.0 to the self-correction program under the IRS Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (commonly referred to as “EPCRS”).  While...more

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The IRS Starts the Summer with a Splash: New Guidance for Self-Correction

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As discussed in an earlier blog post, the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (the Act) expanded the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS), a comprehensive IRS program for correcting common qualified retirement plan...more

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IRS Issues SECURE 2.0 Guidance on Expanded Availability of Self-Correction

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The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) greatly expands the availability of self-correction of compliance failures involving employer retirement plans and IRAs. On May 25, 2023, the IRS issued Notice 2023-43, which...more

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Secure Act 2.0 Creates Greater Opportunities for Self-Correction of Retirement Plans

Since 1998 the Internal Revenue Services (the “IRS”) has had a comprehensive employees plans correction program with three components: self-correction (SCP), voluntary correction with IRS approval including related user fee...more

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SECURE 2.0 Requires Major Changes to Retirement Plans and EPCRS

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Executive Summary: On December 23, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was passed by Congress, which included the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0” or “the Act”). This legislation greatly impacts retirement...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

SECURE 2.0 Expansion of Self-Correction Program and Plan Loan Error Corrections

The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0), the follow-up legislation to the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (now known as SECURE 1.0) (previously discussed here and here), includes many...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

SECURE 2.0: Retirement Plan Changes for 2023

The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 was enacted at the end of last year as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. The act sets forth a number of changes affecting retirement plans that go into effect over several years....more

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SECURE 2.0 Delivers New Rules for Correcting Retirement Plan Errors

As part of our ongoing series on SECURE 2.0, this post discusses three significant changes to corrections of common retirement plan errors: (1) New rules for correcting overpayments, (2) expansion of the Self-Correction...more

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IRS Announces New 90-Day Pre-Examination Compliance Pilot Program for Retirement Plans

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In its June 3, 2022 Employee Plans Newsletter, the IRS announced a pilot pre-examination retirement plan compliance program beginning in June 2022. Under the pilot program, the IRS will notify a qualified plan sponsor by...more

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IRS Pilot Program Gives Employers Heads-Up on Retirement Plan Audits

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The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has announced a pilot program that begins this month in which they will send letters to employers letting them know that their retirement plan has been selected for examination. Under...more

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IRS Announces New Audit Program for Retirement Plans

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On June 3, 2022, the IRS announced it is launching a pilot pre-examination retirement plan compliance program, which generally will be effective immediately (June 2022). This pilot program essentially gives plan sponsors a...more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

It’s [Not] Too Late Baby, Now It’s [Not] Too Late…for Required Minimum Distributions

If you have participants in your retirement plan who are old enough to identify Carole King as the artist who released the song “It’s Too Late” some 50 years ago, this blog’s for you. Late payment of required minimum...more

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