At the beginning of this year, JPMorgan Chase & Co. defeated another lawsuit that challenged losses in its ESOP (employee stock ownership plans) and 401(k) plans, even though a U.S. Supreme Court ruling recently changed the standard [...]
You cannot browse social media, watch the nightly news or read your local newspaper without coming across something about the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). And while the jury is still being decided on whether health care [...]
Are You In Violation of ERISA? Under ACA, employers with more than 50 full-time employees are required to pay minimum health care for them and their dependents. For the company, Dave & Buster’s, this would have meant [...]
2015 form 5500 filing deadline is July 31, 2016! WHAT IS A FORM 5500? The Department of Labor (DOL) requires this annual report which contains pertinent information about employee benefit plans which is intended to ensure that they are [...]
The ERISA experts and Form 5500 provider at Benefits Compliance Consultants, Inc., have recently been made aware of information that we deem pertinent to our clientele: PROBLEM: The DOL is using employer’s identification numbers (EIN) to crosscheck records [...]
Health and welfare plans currently exempt from filing Schedule C of Form 5500 will remain exempt. However, starting with the 2009 Form 5500, Schedule C will require ERISA plans to provide much more detail about provider fees and [...]
DOL Denies Request for Form 5500 Filing ExtensionAn official at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has informed the Council that the agency will not grant an automatic extension of the Form 5500 deadline for the 2009 plan [...]
Council Urges Extension of Form 5500 Filing DeadlineOn July 13, the Council sent a letter to senior officials at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requesting an extension of the deadline for filing the [...]
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