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The 401(k) match has long been one of the most powerful tools for building retirement savings. It’s the “free money” we’ve all been trained to chase—and advise our clients to chase. So when Fidelity, Schwab, and others start...more
Candidly, an AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform issues a report on the effectiveness of their Student Loan Retirement Match program, which was allowed SECURE 2.0....more
The DOL updated its voluntary fiduciary correction program (“VFCP”) which was introduced over 20 years ago to allow plan sponsors to corrected enumerated fiduciary breaches. The amended VFCP now allows for self-correction of...more
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
The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) launched the public Retirement Savings Lost and Found Database, an online tool designed to help former participants and beneficiaries find retirement...more
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
The Secure Act, passed in 2019 and updated in 2022, made significant changes to the required minimum distribution (RMD) rules applicable to qualified retirement plans, IRAs, 403(b) plans, and other eligible deferred...more
The Secure 2.0 Act of 2022 authorizes numerous new provisions that employers can choose to include or exclude in the retirement plans they sponsor. Recently, retirement plan vendors (vendors) have been sending communications...more
The burden of student loan debt is an ever-present challenge for our former post-high school students. As you probably know, President Biden had proposed a student debt forgiveness plan that was projected to relieve as much...more
Millennium Trust announced that they will add an optional auto-portability function to its automatic rollover IRA solution. They expect this add-on feature to be ready for client testing later this quarter and available in...more
Yesterday, the Senate passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (the “CAA”) to fund the government through September 30, 2023. Division T of the legislation is the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”), which builds...more
Section 457(b) Plans provided by Tax-Exempt employers for their highly compensated employees and/or a select group of management employees (“Tax-Exempt 457(b) Plans”) are subject to required minimum distribution rules under...more
Like many of our clients, we have been anxiously awaiting guidance from regulators on pooled employer plans, which may enter the retirement plan marketplace as soon as January 1, 2021. ...more
Over the next year, the Department of Labor (DOL) will likely be issuing guidance in a number of areas that could impact asset managers and financial services companies. In this Bottom Line videocast, Carol McClarnon and...more
The introduction to my last two posts, SECURE Act Part 1 and SECURE Act Part 2, explained: There are two parts of the SECURE Act that I believe will have the greatest impact on my clients: plan sponsors and plan service...more