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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

DOL Issues Late-Breaking Guidance on Defined Benefit Pension Plan Annual Funding Notices

The SECURE Act 2.0, enacted in December 2022, made several updates to what must be included in annual funding notices (“AFN”) issued by defined benefit pension plans. For large plans (as defined below) with a plan year ending...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Pension Plan Notice Requirements Change Before Deadline

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The Department of Labor (DOL) issued guidance earlier this month that will affect defined benefit plans’ annual funding notices. The annual funding notice requirements were amended by SECURE 2.0 and are effective for plan...more

Smith Anderson

New DOL Guidance for Pension Plan Sponsors - What Employers Need to Know

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On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued important new guidance for employers that sponsor defined benefit (pension) plans. This guidance provides new model notices and addresses several outstanding...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

DOL Clarifies Annual Funding Notice Requirements and Updates Model Notices

On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) issued Field Assistance Bulletin 2025-02 (the “Bulletin”), clarifying the annual funding notice requirements applicable to defined benefit pension plans under section...more

McGuireWoods LLP

DOL Issues Guidance Implementing SECURE Act Changes to Defined Benefit Plan Annual Funding Notices

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On April 3, 2025, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2025-02 to assist defined benefit pension plan administrators with deciphering the requirements of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 as to annual...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

DOL Issues SECURE 2.0 Annual Funding Notice Guidance, Including Updated Model Notices

On April 3, 2025, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued Field Assistance Bulletin 2025-02 (the “Bulletin”), which provides guidance related to certain modifications made by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) to the...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

SECURE 2.0’s Required Changes to Annual Funding Notices Become Effective in 2025

SECURE 2.0 introduced many changes for retirement plans, including updated disclosure requirements for a defined benefit plan’s annual funding notice (AFN). These updated AFN disclosure requirements apply for all plan years...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Accelerated PBGC Premium Deadline for 2025 – Unless Congress Acts…

Under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA 2015”), Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”) premiums for plan years beginning in 2025 are due one month earlier than normal. For example, for calendar year plans,...more

Snell & Wilmer

2024 End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 3) Qualified Retirement Plans

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As 2024 comes to an end, we are pleased to present our traditional End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate SW Benefits Updates. Part 1 addressed health and welfare plan...more

Carlton Fields

Sometimes, Pension De-Risking Makes Cents

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In a defined benefit plan, participants usually accrue a monthly benefit based on a formula that typically considers their last three years’ salary before retirement and years of service with their employer. For example, the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

DOL Final Rule 4.0 - Correcting the historical record

From the 2010 outset of its project to extend ERISA fiduciary status broadly to financial intermediaries, including insurance agents, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has consistently relied on the evolution of the private...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - June 2024

The June Monthly Minute highlights recent DOL guidance on annuity provider selection for defined benefit plans and IRS Q&As that provide details on SECURE 2.0’s optional emergency and domestic abuse victim distributions for...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

401(k) Plan Sponsors Need To Sweat The Small Stuff

They say that you shouldn’t sweat the small stuff. As a kid from Brooklyn, I do sweat the small stuff. When they say that you shouldn’t sweat the small stuff, they mean that you should not focus your energy on things that...more

Miller Canfield

Federal Agencies Issue PLESA Guidance

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The IRS and the U.S. Department of Labor recently issued guidance which addresses the newly created Pension Linked Emergency Savings Accounts (“PLESAs”), a novel plan design option authorized under SECURE 2.0. PLESAs are...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Final Changes Announced to Forms 5500 and 5500-SF

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it has finalized, together with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), the third and final round of revisions to the Form 5500 Annual...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

Pocket Guide to SECURE 2.0

SECURE 2.0 includes significant changes for retirement plan sponsors and employers, as discussed in our prior blog posts. If you are looking for a short summary organized by effective date, we have prepared a “pocket guide”...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

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

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Cryptocurrency in 401(k) Plans? Might be More Like “Crypto-nite,” Says the DOL in Its Latest Release

Kryptonite is a fictional substance that causes the mighty Superman to lose all his strength. According to a recent release from the U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration (“DOL”), cryptocurrency...more

Williams Mullen

New Lifetime Income Illustrations Required This Year

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Act (the “SECURE Act”), passed at the end of 2019, adds a participant disclosure requirement that addresses a long-held concern of lawmakers that many participants are not...more

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

DOL Issues Implementation FAQs Regarding the Lifetime Income Illustrations for Defined Contribution Plans

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (SECURE Act) amended the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to add two lifetime income illustrations, furnished at least annually, to plan...more

Stinson LLP

DOL Issues FAQs on SECURE Act Lifetime Income Illustrations and Interim Final Rule

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On July 26, 2021 the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration issued a set of four frequently asked questions (FAQs) that address the implementation of Section 203 of the Setting Every Community...more

BCLP

Are Your COBRA Notices Sufficient to Avert a Costly Challenge?

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While the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (“COBRA”) continuation coverage subsidy requirements imposed by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 are at the forefront of employers’ minds, recent litigation trends...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

About That Pension Check… A Miscalculation Case With Broader Implications

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently addressed several issues of first impression in Bafford v. Northrop Grumman (9th Cir. April 15, 2021), a lawsuit involving retirees who received vastly overstated pension benefit...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Cybersecurity Guidance For Fiduciaries

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As of 2018, the DOL estimates that there are 34 million defined benefit (DB) plan participants in private pension plans and 106 million defined contribution (DC) plan participants with combined assets of $9.3 trillion....more

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DOL Will Not Enforce Its Own ESG Rule, But Fiduciaries Should Not Ignore It

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The Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced that it will not enforce its own rule on investment duties under ERISA. The rule makes it more difficult for investment fiduciaries to consider environmental, social,...more

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