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Understanding a SOC Report and Its Purpose in Relation to an Employee Benefit Plan
SOC Report. SSAE 16 or 18. What do these terms mean? Your employee benefit plan auditor may request these reports ...
Hardship Distributions: What’s New?
In February 2018, Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act (the “Act”). A key provision of this new legislation relaxes certain ...
Avoid Litigation With Attention to Common Red Flags
Any size retirement plan can run into serious trouble when sponsors aren’t careful. With some planning, though, your qualified retirement ...
Defining Retirement Plan Compensation
When it comes to administering your retirement plan, determining compensation for each participant can be confusing. Compensation is routinely near ...
Educate Employees on Required Minimum Distribution Rules
The deadline for taking 2017 required minimum distributions (RMDs) is rapidly approaching: December 31, 2017. If you own a business ...
Employee Benefit Plan Resources: November 2017
View our November 2017 Employee Benefit Plan Resources newsletter. This newsletter features the following headlines: Know Your Plan's Bonding Requirements ...
New Expectations for Hardship Distributions
New guidance released for IRS field auditors in February of this year indicates that more extensive documentation requirements will be ...
Cybersecurity of Employee Benefit Plans
How does your plan protect its data? The answer to this question can vary widely among plans, because there are ...
The Importance of Timely Employee Deferral Remittances
Many employee benefit plan sponsors know that participant contributions to a retirement plan that are withheld by an employer need ...
ACA Repeal and Replacement-Update
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires Applicable Large Employers (ALE's are 50 or more full-time equivalent employees) to report health ...
