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Employers are grappling with employee benefit issues in response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19”).  Efforts are being made to pave the way for widespread testing by eliminating cost barriers such as deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, or High Deductible Health Plan restrictions to ensure employees and their families are proactively being diagnosed once symptoms present, to…

Long on the wish list of practitioners and plan sponsors alike, self-correction of certain common plan document issues and loan failures is finally an option under the Internal Revenue Service’s Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“EPCRS”), newly minted via Rev. Proc. 2019-19.

It is no secret that the IRS is continually dealing with reduced…

The IRS, on December 17, 2010, issued Revenue Ruling 2010-17, which sets forth examples of certain expenses that may be eligible for an unforeseeable emergency distribution from an IRC Section 457(b) deferred compensation plan. Section 457(b) plans generally may permit hardship distributions for unforeseeable emergencies if certain requirements are met. The ruling concludes that residential …

IRS Notice 2010-6 previously provided guidance concerning how to make payment of nonqualified deferred compensation that is subject to the signing of a release complaint with Section 409A. 

Essentially, it provides that a plan may not allow an employee to delay or accelerate the timing of a payment as a result of the employee’s actions …

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued an Exposure Draft (the “Draft”) September 1, 2010, proposing changes to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”), which, if adopted, would require participating employers in multiemployer pension plans to disclose in their financial statements additional information concerning their obligations to such plans. The Draft would apply to public companies for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2010 and to non-public companies exactly one year later.
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