I sponsor a 401(k) Plan for myself and my staff. I recently processed a hardship distribution for the purchase of my primary residence in October 2018. I know the rules require me to suspend my deferral elections for six months following a hardship distribution, but I recently came across an article that said I don’t have to impose the suspension anymore. I’d really like the opportunity to continue deferring if I am allowed.
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Our company sponsors a safe harbor 401(k) plan that provides a matching contribution equal to 100% of the first 4% each participant defers. I had always thought that the deadline for us to deposit the match is the due date of our company tax return (with extensions), but my TPA mentioned something about a quarterly deposit requirement.
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We have an employee who attained age 70 ½ earlier in 2018 and will retire by the end of 2018. However, she has agreed to enter into a contract to provide services to our firm and will be reclassified as an independent contractor on December 1, 2018.
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Nearly a year after Congress passed changes to the hardship distribution rules in the Bipartisan Budget Act and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the IRS has published proposed regulations to fill in some of the details on how to implement the new rules.
We have a non-owner participant in our 401(k) plan who is age 74 and retired in 2014. That means that he has already been taking required minimum distributions for the last few years. We just recently rehired him in October 2018. Now that he is re-employed he has inquired as to whether he can suspend his RMDs this year.
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One of the non-owner participants in our 401(k) plan will be turning 70 in April of next year (2019). That means she will reach age 70 ½ in October and will need to start taking required minimum distributions. The participant knows her first RMD is due no later than April 1, 2020, but she has asked whether she has to wait that long to actually withdraw the money.
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