The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the Federal Department of Labor plans to publish on November 18, 2015, new claims procedures for adjudicating disability benefits designed to enhance existing procedures for those benefits under Section 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). EBSA’s goal is to apply to disability benefits many of
THE AUDIT QUALITY REPORT FOR BENEFIT PLANS IS IN AND THE DOL IS NOT HAPPY
By Jackson Lewis P.C. on
The DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) recently completed its report on the quality of audit work performed on employee benefit plans by independent qualified public accountants (“IQPA”) and was not pleased with the results. EBSA reviewed a sample of the 81,000 audits completed as a part of each plan’s Annual Report/Form 5500 filing requirement…