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- IRS Announces Additional Form 5500 Deadline Relief for Certain Taxpayers Affected by Florida Hurricanes
- From the September 16, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has announced special tax relief, including extension of the Form 5500 filing deadline, for certain affected taxpayers who reside in the Florida counties that are part of the Presidentially declared Hurricane Frances disaster area. In addition, the IRS ...
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- DOL Comments on Redistribution of SPDs to Rehired Participants
- From the August 19, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- As we reported earlier this month, the Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association (ABA) has posted on its website a report of the April 2004 informal question and answer session between JCEB representatives and officials ...
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- Bonding Exemption Requirements Are Met by Non-Deposit Bank That Is Subsidiary of Bank Holding Company
- From the July 15, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- This Advisory Opinion addresses technical bonding issues that will be of most interest to financial institutions. By way of background, ERISA requires employee benefit plan fiduciaries and other persons who handle plan funds or property to be bonded. There is ...
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- DOL Determines That a Funded Vacation Pay Plan and a Remembrance Fund Are Not ERISA Plans
- From the July 15, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- DOL Advisory Opinion 2004-06A (June 21, 2004)] The DOL has issued two new advisory opinions regarding whether certain arrangements are subject to ERISA. In Advisory Opinion 2004-08A, the DOL determined that a vacation pay plan that did not ...
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- Affiliated Service Groups Are Not Necessarily a Single Employer for MEWA Purposes
- From the June 10, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- This DOL Information Letter responds to a question about whether an "affiliated service group" under Code Section 414(m) is a "single employer" for purposes of ERISA's definition of a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA). A MEWA, by definition, ...
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- DOL Determines That Funded Multiemployer Holiday and Vacation Fund Is an ERISA Plan
- From the June 03, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- A representative of a collectively bargained multiemployer holiday and vacation fund requested an opinion from the DOL that the fund was not an ERISA employee benefit plan. Instead the DOL issued an Advisory Opinion providing that the holiday and vacation ...
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- DOL Launches National Education Campaign on Fiduciary Responsibility
- From the May 20, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has announced a nationwide campaign to educate employers and service providers about their fiduciary responsibilities under ERISA. The education campaign includes seminars to help plan sponsors and other fiduciaries understand the terms of their plans, select and monitor ...
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- DOL Comments on New ERISA Claims Regulations and More in JCEB Question and Answer Session
- From the May 06, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association (ABA) has posted on its website a report of informal discussions between JCEB representatives and DOL officials that occurred in May 2003. These discussions occur each year and ...
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- EBSA Issues Year 2003 Form M-1 With Electronic Filing Option and Extended Deadline
- From the February 19, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued the Year 2003 Form M-1 and accompanying Instructions. Multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs) that provide health benefits are generally required to file an annual report with the DOL on ...
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- Employers Participating in MEWA Are Bona Fide Group or Association and Therefore MEWA Is a Single ERISA Plan
- From the January 08, 2004 EBIA Weekly
- This Advisory Opinion addresses an important issue for multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs): whether ERISA applies at the MEWA level (so that one ERISA plan exists) or at the employer level (so that each separate employer participating in the MEWA ...
