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What Should An Employer Do When It Receives An IRS Notice of Levy to Garnish?
What to do about garnishing and other strange notices?! Oftentimes, the HR professionals get curious correspondence on their desks, unrelated to ERISA or Executive Compensation. For example, we get...
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How Employers Can Allow Employees to Contribute Unused Vacation Time Into a...
In today’s economic climate and the demands of the office, more employees are finding themselves with excess vacation time that they cannot even begin to use. Rather than lose the value of that unused...
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What To Do If You Think Your Plan Will Fail Discrimination Tests This Year?
It’s the end of July, and right about now, I get some panicked questions from employers regarding their retirement plans. It’s really to be expected. For calendar-year plans, Forms 5500 are due, so...
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403(b) PLAN COMPLIANCE ISSUES UNEARTHED: Problems Encountered in 2010
403(b) PLAN COMPLIANCE ISSUES UNEARTHED: Problems Encountered in 2010 By Jewell Lim Esposito Fairfax Office In the past, unless a 403(b) program (or plan) was subject to the Employee Retirement...
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IRS Notice Delays Group Health Care Cost Reporting on Form W-2
The Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2010-69 (the “Notice”) on October 12, 2010. The Notice provides relief to employers with respect to reporting the cost of coverage under an employer...
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IRS Announces Dollar Limits for 2011
On October 28, 2010, the Internal Revenue Service announced the cost of living adjustments applicable to dollar limitations for pension plans for the 2011 tax year. The limitations for the 2011 tax...
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IMPORTANT 2010 YEAR-END NOTICES FOR QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLAN SPONSORS
As we approach the end of 2010, we remind you to determine your need to provide certain required year-end notices, as the failure to provide required notices exposes a plan sponsor from $110 to $1000...
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Late Employee Elective Deferrals — Department of Labor Continues to...
Despite advice to the contrary, a company I once represented erroneously thought that being late on employee elective deferrals into a 401(k) was a mere minor problem, involving just tens of thousands...
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Temporary Relief for Insured Group Health Plans: Nondiscrimination Rules Delayed
These group health plan rules continue to confuse and confound, as such the IRS is delaying the application of the nondiscrimination rules. The nondiscrimination rules for insured group health plans...
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We Moved and Relaunched!
“Employee Benefits Unplugged has moved and relaunched with added content and a new look! While the web address remains www.EmployeeBenefitsUnplugged.com, the blog platform has changed. This means that...
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What To Do If You Think Your Plan Will Fail Discrimination Tests This Year?
It’s the end of July, and right about now, I get some panicked questions from employers regarding their retirement plans. It’s really to be expected. For calendar-year plans, Forms 5500 are due, so...
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