Data and Research | February 12th, 2024 Education Savings Benefits Gain Momentum as Employees Struggle With Student Debt As loan repayments are an obstacle limiting employees’ retirement savings, education savings benefits are an opportunity for employers to relieve...
Compliance | February 9th, 2024 What Could Taxing 401(k)s Look Like? And How Likely Is It? A few informal proposals have been made in recent years, and none got very far.
Compliance | February 5th, 2024 Small Businesses Don’t Know About Plan Creation Tax Credits, per EBRI That’s despite citing profitability and plan cost among their chief reasons for not starting a plan.
Benefits | February 5th, 2024 529, ABLE Qualified Tuition Plans Reach $470B After Big Q4 Inflows In 2023’s fourth quarter, the number of tax-preferred education savings and prepaid accounts rose to 16.4 million.
Products | February 1st, 2024 New PEP Made Available by Ascensus, American Funds The pooled employer plan is live from one of the country’s biggest PEP administrators alongside a leading TDF provider.
Compliance | January 31st, 2024 Whatever Happened to CITs in 403(b)s? It’s still a work in progress, as a legislative proposal makes its way through Congress.
Ask the Experts | January 30th, 2024 How Does the New Distribution Provision for Terminal Illness Work? Experts from Groom Law Group and CAPTRUST answer questions concerning retirement plan administration and regulations.
Compliance | January 26th, 2024 Stakeholders Ask for Enforcement Delay on Part-Time Eligibility Rules SECURE 2.0 requires part-timers to be made eligible for elective contributions after two years of service.
Compliance | January 25th, 2024 Pension-Linked Emergency Accounts Can Incentivize Lower-Income Enrollment PLESAs can address liquidity concerns for workers, one of SECURE 2.0’s co-authors argued at the EBRI-Milken Retirement Symposium.
Compliance | January 24th, 2024 2024 PS Webinar: SECURE 2.0 for 403(b) Plans Speakers review what the wide-ranging retirement law means for higher education, nonprofit, health care and government employers.
Compliance | January 24th, 2024 SECURE 2.0 Will Help Young Savers the Most, Research Shows Automatic features and the saver’s match will bring more security to those currently in their 30s than those in their...
Compliance | January 22nd, 2024 How the DOL’s Auto-Portability Proposal Works Service providers could charge a fee directly to an IRA owner for executing a transfer to their new qualified plan.
Benefits | January 22nd, 2024 Will Plan Sponsors Adopt PLESAs in 2024? With new guidance from the DOL and IRS, employers have an opportunity to hit the ground running and adopt pension-linked...
Compliance | January 19th, 2024 Auto-Portability Proposal Is In The proposal would implement a SECURE 2.0 provision intended to make it easier to transfer money between DC plans to...
Compliance | January 18th, 2024 DOL Publishes FAQs on Emergency Savings Accounts The document clarifies acceptable investments, the $2,500 limit and other items for the feature enabled by SECURE 2.0 legislation that...
Data and Research | January 17th, 2024 How Plan Sponsors Can Address Declining Retirement Confidence in 2024 Plan sponsors should consider diversifying their fixed-income allocations in their investment menus, as well as exploring optional SECURE 2.0 provisions,...
Compliance | January 12th, 2024 IRS Takes On SECURE 2.0 Emergency Savings Accounts The notice outlines methods sponsors may not use to counter the abuse of sidecar account matching contributions, instead asking for...
Compliance | January 5th, 2024 Recent Regulatory Updates for MEPs, PEPs, DCGs The DOL and IRS have both issued updates for the three composite plan types.
Administration | January 4th, 2024 Form 5500 Modifications Announced for Plan Year 2023 Several schedules have been updated to reflect regulatory changes from both the DOL and IRS.
Benefits | January 3rd, 2024 Employers Have An Opportunity to Press Demographic Trend: Hiring Older Workers The growing pool of workers 65 and older is affecting how plan sponsors should look at workplaces and benefits in...