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The DOL Lost and Found Database is Live

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Late last year, the Department of Labor (DOL) launched the public Retirement Savings Lost and Found Database. Created as part of SECURE 2.0, the DOL hopes that the database will serve as a centralized location to help missing...more

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Things I Worry About (8): DOL Investigations and Unsuspecting Plan Sponsors (2)

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As explained in my last post, Things I Worry About (7), the DOL’s EBSA has a number of programs that can restore benefits to plans and participants. Those include: - Civil investigations. - Criminal investigations. -...more

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Required Minimum Distributions and Missing Plan Participants

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In January of 2021, we published two blog posts regarding Department of Labor (“DOL”) guidance on missing retirement plan participants. The first post describes DOL guidance on best practices for locating missing retirement...more

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Create a missing participant process

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It’s more work, but it’s clear that the Department of Labor (DOL) wants you to do more work when dealing with former participants who you lose track of, but still have money in your 401(k) plan....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Forced Rollovers of Small Retirement Account Balances: What to Do with Missing Participants

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When a participant experiences a distribution event (e.g., terminating service with the employer), and when the participant does not affirmatively elect to take the distribution, a plan document may require that an account...more

Williams Mullen

PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Missing Plan Participants

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On this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt is joined once again by Beryl Ball, Principal Financial Advisor at CAPTRUST, who explains the Department of Labor’s recent guidance for plan sponsors...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The DOL's New Missing Participant Guidance: Tips for Applying it in the Real World

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By now, you’ve probably read about the Department of Labor's new guidance on locating missing retirement plan participants. And, as you’re probably already aware, missing participants (and beneficiaries) can be a real...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Missing Retirement Plan Participants? The DOL Says You Should Follow These Best Practices

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In response to ongoing pleas for guidance, the Department of Labor (DOL) has published an informal outline expressing its views on how retirement plan administrators should be addressing missing or unresponsive participants....more

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New Guidance on Missing Participants & Escheatment to State Unclaimed Property Funds

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued Rev. Rul. 2020-24 and Rev. Proc. 2020-46 to provide direction with respect to qualified plan distributions paid to a state unclaimed property fund (i.e., an escheatment of...more

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