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Pensions on Divorce: Practical Hurdles and the Gender Pension Gap

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The UK pension sharing system often results in poor outcomes for divorced women due to its complexity and low uptake. Practical issues like timing delays, unresponsive ex-spouses, and fluctuating pension credit values further...more

Kilpatrick

IRS Extends Relief for Remote Notarization of Spousal Consents

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In June, the IRS provided temporary relief that allows for spousal consents for retirement plan loans or distributions to be witnessed remotely through audio visual equipment by a notary public in accordance with a state...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Considerations for Obtaining Spousal Consent at a (Remote) Social Distance

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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations require that spousal consent to the waiver of a qualified joint and survivor annuity (QJSA) that is necessary to elect an optional retirement payment form must be signed in the...more

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Same-sex survivors' pensions - exemption for pre-2005 service invalid

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The Supreme Court in Walker v Innospec Limited, overturning the Court of Appeal, has decided that the exemption for service prior to December 2005 from the requirement for occupational pension schemes to give survivors'...more

Stinson - Benefits Notes Blog

Beware the Retroactive QDRO

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Employers know that they must honor qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs) that assign a portion of a retirement benefit to a participant’s former spouse, known as an alternate payee, when the participant and alternate...more

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