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Safe Harbor 401(k) Plans: Your Port in the Testing Storm

If you are a current plan sponsor or are considering setting up a 401(k) plan, you may have heard the term ‘safe harbor’ mentioned. You may have been told that a safe harbor feature would benefit ...
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CARES Act Relief for Retirement Plan Loan Payments is Ending, Now What?

Facts Earlier this year, we implemented the coronavirus relief provisions that allowed our participants to suspend loan payments for the remainder of 2020. As a result of reduced hours and other ...
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Safe Harbor 401(k) Resources

If you are a current plan sponsor or are considering setting up a 401(k) plan, you may have heard the term ‘safe harbor’ mentioned. You may have been told that a safe harbor feature would benefit ...
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Safe Harbor 401(k) Match vs. Nonelective: Two Words for the Same Thing or Two Different Options

Facts I recently got a promotion at work, and one of my new job responsibilities is to help manage our company’s retirement plan. It is a safe harbor 401(k) plan. A number of our employees are about ...
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What Does Safe Harbor Mean, Exactly?

Facts When we set up our new 401(k) plan last year, we decided not to add a safe harbor provision because we were not in a position to commit to the required contribution. Then we heard our TPA say ...
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DWC News Update: House Passes the SECURE Act

-A breakdown of breaking news from DWC's Managing Partner, Keith Clark If you are reading the mainstream press, the SECURE Act being signed into law is just around the corner. While the overwhelming ...
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What Compensation Should We Use to Calculate Company Contributions to our 401(k) Plan?

Facts Our company has a safe harbor 401(k) plan. In addition to employees making deferrals, we make a company contribution equal to 3% of each person’s compensation. We deposit both types of ...
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Can I Pre-Fund a Matching Contribution for a Participant Who Terminated Employment?

Facts Our company sponsors a safe harbor 401(k) plan that provides for a dollar-for-dollar match up to 4% of pay. At the end of each year, we calculate the total matching contribution, and we usually ...
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What's Old Is New Again

Whether we’re talking fashion or music or architecture or barber shops, it seems things that have faded from existence eventually come back around. See if this cycle looks familiar: cutting edge ...
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Werewolves of Pension

I was recently asked to write an article on ERISA Section 404(c). As I contemplated how to approach the article, I recalled many situations in which I have heard 404(c) pitched as the mythical silver ...
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Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy…Not When It Comes To Retirement Plans

Qualified plans are complicated beasts regardless of size or design. This truth is sometimes forgotten at this time of year when sponsors and service-providers are busy dealing with nondiscrimination ...
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