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- IRS Issues Final Regulations on Qualified and Eligible Automatic Contribution Arrangements
- From the February 26, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has finalized regulations for implementing a qualified automatic contribution arrangement (QACA) or an eligible automatic contribution arrangement (EACA). As background, a QACA is a safe harbor plan design with automatic contributions that is deemed to satisfy the ADP ...
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- EBSA Issues Guidance on Fiduciary Duties in Response to Alleged Abuses Involving the Madoff Investment Firm
- From the February 12, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued a brief statement on the duties of employee benefit plan fiduciaries in light of alleged abuses involving Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. According to the guidance, recent events ...
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- DOL Proposes to Delay Final Investment Advice Regulations, Requests Comments on Delay and Content of Rules
- From the February 05, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has proposed a 60-day delay in the effective and applicability date of its recently published final regulations regarding investment advice for participants and beneficiaries of individual account plans. Those regulations implement the statutory prohibited transaction exemption for &#...
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- Updated IRS Procedures for Issuing Letter Rulings, Determination Letters, and Other Employee Plan Guidance
- From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- Internal Revenue Bulletin 2009-1 contains the annual update and restatement of eight IRS revenue procedures that govern letter rulings, information letters, determination letters, and other IRS guidance, including guidance about employee plans. Each revenue procedure supersedes its 2008 counterpart. ...
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- DOL Issues Final Investment Advice Regulations That Include Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
- From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has issued final regulations that implement the statutory prohibited transaction exemption for “eligible investment advice arrangements” added by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) and include a prohibited transaction class exemption (PTE) that expands the ...
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- White House Asks Agencies to Delay Publication, Effective Dates of Regulations Pending Review
- From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- On Inauguration Day, President Obama’s Chief of Staff issued a memorandum to executive department agencies and heads, advising them of the President’s plan for managing the Federal regulatory process so as to give his appointees and ...
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- DOL Finalizes Penalty Procedures for Failures to Provide Automatic Contribution Arrangement Notices
- From the January 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has finalized the procedures it will use to assess certain civil penalties, including the penalty for failure to provide participants with a notice of their rights and obligations under an automatic contribution arrangement as required by ERISA Section ...
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- Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 Waives RMDs for 2009 and Includes Anticipated PPA Technical Corrections
- From the December 23, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- On December 23, 2008, the President signed into law the Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (the Recovery Act). The Recovery Act waives required minimum distributions (RMDs) for 2009 and includes technical corrections to the Pension Protection Act ...
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- 2008 Cumulative List of Changes in Plan Qualification Requirements for Cycle D Plans
- From the December 04, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- Under its system of cyclical remedial amendment periods, the IRS publishes an annual cumulative list of the statutory, regulatory, and guidance changes that plan sponsors must take into account in their submissions for opinion, advisory, and determination letters of plans ...
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- Advance Form 5500 for 2008 Plan Year Has Been Released
- From the December 04, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL, IRS, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation have released advance, informational copies of the Form 5500, Schedules, and Instructions to be used by employee benefits plans reporting on 2008 plan years (generally, those are plan years beginning in 2008 ...
