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The IRS has released Revenue Ruling 2025-15, which clarifies the federal tax withholding and reporting responsibilities of retirement plan administrators when a distribution check is issued but remains uncashed and a...more
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
About 75% of large 401(k) plan sponsors would rather keep the assets of retired employees in the plan, rather than have these retirees roll over their plan assets into an individual retirement account (IRA), according to a...more
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
More than 16 million accounts of $5,000 or less — $8.5 billion in the aggregate — were left in workplace plans from 2004 through 2013. That is part of the reason that the DOL believes that dealing with the missing participant...more
Bad Behavior You Shouldn’t Replicate As A Plan Provider. I like to treat people the way I wanted to be treated. It usually works out, but there are instances where the other side doesn’t follow the path I’ve taken. As a...more
The DOL recently issued Field Assistance Bulletin 2021-01, blessing the PBGC’s Missing Participant Program as an additional method of addressing a perennial issue in 401(k) terminations – the problem of missing participants...more
For a host of legal and practical reasons, the only feasible alternative for disposing of the accounts of missing participants in a terminating 401(k) or other defined contribution retirement plan qualified only in Puerto...more
How You Should Deal With Missing Plan Participants. What you need to do. Being a 401(k) plan sponsor isn't easy. Half the battle is identifying your responsibilities as a plan fiduciary. The other half is identifying...more