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Countdown to Compliance: What Employers Need to Know About New York’s Secure Choice Savings Program

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New York has officially joined the growing list of states requiring certain private employers to offer retirement savings options. The New York Secure Choice Savings Program (Secure Choice or the Program) is moving closer to...more

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Why TPAs Shouldn’t Ignore SEP-IRAs—But Also Shouldn’t Stop There

If you’re a TPA and you’re not talking to your small business clients about SEP-IRAs, you’re missing the plot. But if you’re only talking about SEP-IRAs, you’re missing the opportunity....more

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Benefit Plan Implications of OBBBA: Student Loan Repayment, HSAs, and More

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), finalized and signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, makes several key changes that impact employers, benefit plan sponsors and plan administrators....more

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What Will Trump 2.0 Mean for Employee Benefits? - One Place to Look for Clues: Project 2025

Even as high-priority issues such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), immigration, and Ukraine take center stage in the first months of the new presidential administration, many employers are wondering what the next...more

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Missing Participants – New State Unclaimed Property Fund Option for Small Balances

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On January 14, 2025, the DOL issued Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) 2025-01, providing sponsors and administrators of ongoing defined contribution plans with a new option for missing participant balances of $1,000 or less:...more

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DOL Issues Guidance on Retirement Plan Treatment of Missing Participants with Small Balances

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has released Field Assistance Bulletin 2025-01 (the Bulletin), providing much-needed guidance to fiduciaries of retirement plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security...more

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Missing Participants – What to do With Abandoned Accounts

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Over the years, plan sponsors and administrators have wrestled with the question of what to do with the accounts of participants who left employment years earlier and cannot now be located. ...more

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Considering Auto-Portability for your Retirement Plan?

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We have noticed an increasing number of employers reaching out with questions about whether they should have their defined contribution plan join the auto-portability network. ...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Avoiding 401(k) Problems With Former Employees

Ialways say that the real reason I never hired employees for my law firm is that I was once an employee too. That means that no matter what my employer could do, there would probably be some- thing I still would complain...more

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Benefit and Contribution Limits for 2025

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The Commissioner of Internal Revenue announced the 2025 dollar limitations for benefits and contributions that apply to retirement plans. The Social Security Administration increased the Social Security taxable wage base....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Interim Guidance on Matching Qualified Student Loan Payments

Until recently, employer matching contributions under qualified plans were required to be conditioned solely upon employee contributions made to the plan. However, one of the many changes enacted by the Consolidated...more

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Fifty Years of ERISA

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On Labor Day fifty years ago, September 2, 1974, President Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) into law. It is a combination of tax and labor law incorporating trust law like fiduciary...more

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Catch Back Up on the SECURE 2.0 Increased Catch-Up Limits for 2025

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With SECURE 2.0’s increased catch-up contribution limits set to take effect next year, it’s time for 401(k) plan sponsors to brush up on the rules and consider how to administer the changes. Under the current rules, 401(k)...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

How SECURE 2.0 Options Impact Form W-2 and Form 1099-R Reporting

IRS reminds employers that implementing certain optional retirement plan provisions of SECURE 2.0 affect Form W‑2 and Form 1099‑R reporting starting in 2023 - The IRS recently issued Fact Sheet 2024‑18 to highlight how...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

IRS SECURE 2.0 guidance answers key questions

The IRS released long-awaited guidance under the SECURE 2.0 Act on December 20, 2023. Notice 2024-2 (Notice) provides clarification of various provisions, including several optional features that plan sponsors have been...more

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ESOPs & Employee Benefits - SECURE 2.0 Provisions Taking Effect in 2024

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As many surely recall, the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 included nearly 100 provisions affecting retirement plans. While a number of the new rules became effective immediately, another portion is scheduled to take effect in 2024....more

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Benefit and Contribution Limits for 2024

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The Commissioner of Internal Revenue announced the 2024 dollar limitations for benefits and contributions that apply to retirement plans. The Social Security Administration increased the Social Security taxable wage base....more

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Enhancing Retirement Readiness Using Employer Matching Contributions on Qualified Student Loan Payments

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Many employees who have had to resume repaying their federal student loans this month may find it harder to continue contributing to their employers’ retirement plans. For some employees, there simply is no room in the family...more

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Treasury Issues Anticipated Relief for New Catch-up Contribution Rule

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The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) provided welcome relief for administrators of plans offering catch-up contributions. Notice 2023-62, issued on August 25, essentially delays the effective date of a provision under the...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Catch-Up Contributions: Breathe a Sigh of Relief

On Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, the IRS released Notice 23-62, which (i) clarifies that plan sponsors may continue to allow participant “age 50” catch-up contributions after Dec. 31, 2023, and (ii) delays implementation of the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

IRS Issues 2-Year Delay for Roth Catch-Up Contribution Requirements

On August 25, 2023, the IRS announced a two-year delay for the Roth catch-up contribution requirement for employees making $145,000 or more in the prior calendar year that would have applied in 2024. The Roth catch-up...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

More time to catch up: IRS announces two year delay of Roth catch-up requirement

The IRS has announced a two-year “administrative transition period” for plan sponsors to implement the SECURE 2.0 Act provision requiring higher-income employees to make retirement plan catch-up contributions as Roth...more

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IRS Delays Roth Catch-Up Requirement for High Earners

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On August 25, 2023, the IRS issued Notice 2023-62 to address certain industry concerns over implementation of Section 603 of the SECURE 2.0 Act. Section 603 relevantly provides that, beginning in 2024, participants eligible...more

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Updates on SECURE 2.0, the Employee Retention Credit and the Preventive Services Mandate

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0) was enacted in December 2022 as part of the year-end omnibus spending bill. Even though several provisions were effective in 2023, the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

IRS Issues Interim Guidance on SECURE 2.0 Self-Correction Expansion

The IRS recently issued Notice 2023-43 (Notice) to provide interim guidance on Section 305 of SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE 2.0), which significantly expanded self-correction under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution...more

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