Baseball season has just started, and retirement plan auditing season will soon kick into high gear. Many plan sponsors don’t see the value of a good auditor; they just see the audit as a cost of doing business. That’s too bad because these days when a plan sponsor becomes aware of an operational problem in
Each year, hundreds of retirement plans are examined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of Labor (DOL). The agencies also examine other kinds of employee benefit plans for compliance with statutes and regulations with respect to which they have enforcement authority. In particular, the DOL has increased its examinations of group health plans