Fiduciary Governance

Former Employees with Plan Assets are Still Plan Participants
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Plan Sponsors should understand that terminated employees who have left their account balance in your plan, are still considered participants under ERISA. As such, they have the same rights as current employees. They cannot contribute to their account under the plan, but otherwise, they have the same ERISA protected rights as plan participants. One protected  Read More →
Annual Plan Audit: An Auditor’s Perspective
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Your organization’s retirement plan will generally require a benefit plan audit if the eligible participant count (including terminated employees who maintain an account balance) exceeds 100 at the beginning of the plan year. But what exactly will be audited and what are the auditors looking for? This audit includes financial statements attached to the Form  Read More →
Plan Documents… Save or Purge?
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Many ERISA plan sponsors are unclear regarding a primary fiduciary responsibility concerning plan document retention (which and when documents may be purged). Most plan sponsors adopt an assumed “reasonable” amount of time to retain documents prior to purging them. Unfortunately, IRS rules may not always be complicit with what may be assumed to be “reasonable”.  Read More →

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