IRS Provides Help to Ensure Plan Qualification
Via the IRS Web site sponsors can obtain Employee Plans Alert Guidelines, Explanations, and Plan Deficiency Paragraphs. The Alert Guidelines are worksheets used to see if provisions of a retirement plan are in compliance with applicable law. The worksheets are broken down by subject matter such as vesting, coverage, contribution and benefit limits, and plan distributions. Not all worksheets will apply to all plans.
Each worksheet has an accompanying Explanation which provide citations to and guidelines for the applicable law.
Plan Deficiency Paragraphs are checklists with pre-approved wording that will satisfy IRS Code requirements. Use of the approved language will help ensure plan qualification.
The IRS forms and documents can be accessed here .