ERISAProposed Rules (FR)Proposed Nov 21, 2022★ strong match
…aid Contributions. Pay to the trust (A) the Principal Amount, and, where applicable, any penalties, late fees, or other charges necessary to prevent a lapse in coverage due to the failure to make timely payments, and (B) Lost Earnings on the Principal Amount as described in section 5(b). The Loss Date for such contribu…
90 FR 4192 — Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Jan 15, 2025★ strong match
…aid Contributions. Pay to the trust (A) the Principal Amount, and, where applicable, any penalties, late fees, or other charges necessary to prevent a lapse in coverage due to the failure to make timely payments, and (B) the greater of (
1) Lost Earnings on the Principal Amount or (
2) Restoration of Profits resulting …
75 FR 2068 — Definition of “Plan Assets”-Participant Contributions ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Jan 14, 2010★ strong match
…the employer's general assets—will also accommodate these other timing issues raised by commenters.
Deposit-by-Deposit Basis
One commenter asked whether a failure to meet the safe harbor during one payroll period will result in application of the general rule for determining when participant contributions are plan asse…
ERISACourt RulingsApr 27, 1995
…re required to be filed between
arch 23, 1992 and September 30, 1992. A one thousand dollar
(
,000) late fee was to be included with each overdue report filed
under this procedure.
In accordance with the USDL 92-158 procedure, the Respondent
filed its Forms 5500 for the fiscal years 1988 through 1991 on
September 30, 1…
ERISACourt RulingsFeb 22, 2000
… - 13) These finalized
Form 5500 C/R's were due on November 13, 1998, and were, therefore
five days late for the submission, and in technical non-compliance.
No reasons were stated for the late submissions, and there was no
evidence presented that an extension had been sought for the late
submissions.
81 FR 47534 — Proposed Revision of Annual Information Return/Reports ERISAProposed Rules (FR)Proposed Jul 21, 2016★ strong match
se contributions and the interest calculated as described in the preceding sentence are excluded from the value of assets reported in Lines 2a and 2b. Interest adjustment for contributions representing late required quarterly installments—installments due after the valuation date.
If the full amount of a required insta…
ERISACourt RulingsJun 26, 2013
…heir cases are pending before the administrative law judge.”
48
However, the mitigating effect of a late filing must have some outer limit.
49
While participants
and beneficiaries may well have an interest in obtaining even late-filed annual reports, it is
difficult to imagine that by 2013 a plan participant would sign…
AO 2025-03A — Concluding that the deferred incentive compensation program offered by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC qualifies as an exempt "bonus program" under 29 C.F.R. §… ERISADOL Advisory OpinionsSep 9, 2025related by meaning
…bility, involuntary termination or government service, is not the sort of deferral of income contemplated by ERISA section 3(2)(A ). As described above, the
program does not involve the systematic deferral of payments to the termination of covered
employment or beyond, which would preclude the deferred incentive compen…
ERISADOL Technical ReleasesJul 1, 1997
the circumstances under which these individuals cannot be treated as late enrollees for purposes of applying a preexisting condition exclusion period. Any individual to whom coverage has not been made available before the effective date of HIPAA because of a health status-related factor, and who enrolls when first elig…
ERISACode / StatuteJan 6, 2025related by meaning
(c)(7)(D)(ii) (ii) Amounts set aside for nonqualified deferred compensation If during any calendar year assets are set aside or reserved (directly or indirectly) in a trust (or other arrangement as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury), or transferred to such a trust or other arrangement, by a plan sponsor for p…
89 FR 43675 — Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2006-06 for Services Provided in Connection With the Termination of Abandoned Individual Account Plans ERISAFinal Rules (FR)May 17, 2024
…:
Assume a customer opens a new Individual Retirement Plan and invests in a one-year certificate of deposit that returns 2.0%. The one-year certificate of deposit that returns 2.0% is also available to an Individual Retirement Plan established at the same time in accordance with the QTA Regulation. This is a permissibl…
85 FR 82798 — Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02, Improving Investment Advice for Workers & Retirees ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Dec 18, 2020
…ued or guaranteed by a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), municipal securities, certificates of deposit, and interests in Unit Investment Trusts. In response to one commenter's specific question as to whether the term “certificates of deposit” includes brokered certificates of deposit, the Department clarifies that…
ERISACourt RulingsNov 4, 1994
…eports. PWBA now intends to identify and penalize those plan
administrators who file annual reports late or
not at all. ...
Under PWBA's expanded penalty assessment
program, the following penalties may be
assessed against welfare plan administrators.
-- Late filers -- plan
administrators who
voluntarily file annual
rep…
81 FR 92639 — Savings Arrangements Established by Qualified State Political Subdivisions for Non-Governmental Employees ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Dec 20, 2016related by meaning
te).
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30.
See, e.g.,
Comment Letter #19 (Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives).
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31.
See, e.g., Comment Letter #9 (New York City Comptroller).
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32.
81 FR 59470 (August 30, 2016).
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33.
See, e.g.,
Comment Letter #12 (AFL-CIO); Comme…
ERISADOL Technical ReleasesJul 1, 1997
…5 of the Code. Pursuant to the rules of section 125, an employee can elect to reduce the employee's salary in order to pay for health FSA coverage without the employee having to include that portion of the salary in gross income. Commonly, the maximum benefit payable under a health FSA for any year is equal to the amou…
ERISACode / StatuteJan 4, 1995
(d) (d) Salary of person barred from employee benefit plan office during appeal of conviction Whenever any person— any salary which would be otherwise due such person by virtue of such office or position, shall be placed in escrow by the individual or organization responsible for payment of such salary. Payment of such…
89 FR 32260 — Amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 25, 2024
…unions.[70]
In 2017, the GAO estimated that approximately two percent of credit unions have private deposit insurance.[71] Based on this estimate, the Department estimates that there are approximately 95 credit unions with private deposit insurance and 4,740 credit unions in total.[72]
In the proposal, the Department e…
ERISARegulationsJan 1, 2017related by meaning
…held employee contributions to the plan. The amount of the total withheld employee contributions is deposited with the trust that is maintained under the plan on the 7th business day following the date on which the employees are paid. Under the safe harbor in paragraph (a)(2) of this section, when the participant contr…
84 FR 37508 — Definition of “Employer” Under Section 3(5) of ERISA-Association Retirement Plans and Other Multiple-Employer Plans ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Jul 31, 2019★ strong match
…rred to as a solo 401(k). As an
( printed page 37540)
employee, a self-employed individual may make salary deferrals up to the lesser of 100 percent of compensation or $19,000 in 2019.[137]
They also can make nonelective contributions up to 25 percent of compensation provided that, when added to any salary deferrals, t…
ERISACourt RulingsJul 26, 1995
…eport was so
rejected, NIP was a nonfiler and therefore eligible under
the Grace Period program for late and non-filers, as
promulgated in the DOL's April 20, 1992 notice in the
Federal Register as extended by its July 24, 1992 Federal
Register notice to plan administrators who filed late annual
reports prior to the ef…