Data and Research | July 30th, 2018 TIAA Finds Retirement Plan Leakage Offsets Automatic Enrollment Benefits While automatic enrollment generates positive effects, a report argues how these results are counterweighed by pre-retirement withdrawals.
Compliance | July 11th, 2018 Hardship Withdrawal Safe Harbor Covers Tuition, But Not Loan Repayments Plans which permit non-safe harbor hardship distributions could theoretically approve a participant’s hardship distribution request for the repayment of student...
Compliance | June 13th, 2018 Fiduciary Responsibilities for DC Plan Loans The DOL views them as plan investments.
Compliance | May 18th, 2018 ERISA Excessive Fee Suit Filed Against University of Rochester The suit challenges fees paid to provider TIAA.
Compliance | April 4th, 2018 Most Claims Dismissed in Case About TIAA Loan Processes A federal district court judge agreed that TIAA is not a fiduciary with respect to the design of its participant...
Compliance | February 9th, 2018 Budget Deal Includes Provisions Affecting Retirement Plans Among other things, the bill allows for hardship withdrawals from more contribution types.
Data and Research | December 13th, 2017 Work in Retirement Could Be an Elusive Goal for Many Data shows that only 20% of people 65 and older were in the workforce in 2016, yet 56% of workers...
Compliance | November 2nd, 2017 IRS Extends Disaster Relief to Hurricane Maria, Wildfires Victims The agency has relaxed loan and hardship distribution rules.
Compliance | October 9th, 2017 Congress Adds to Relief for Hurricane Victims The act, signed into law last week, allows tax-penalty-free withdrawals and larger loan amounts from retirement accounts than current statutory...
Ask the Experts | September 26th, 2017 Loan Defaults and Military Leaves of Absence “I have a question regarding the ‘cure’ period after which a retirement plan loan would go into default in relation...