Feb 11, 2020
Rick Pummill, CLU, QPA, QKA The Retirement Plan Company Rick has worked over 30 years in the development, management & administration of qualified retirement plans. Rick earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Dartmouth College & received his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation from the American College and his...Feb 4, 2020
How the Secure Act is Changing Retirement Upcoming Compliance Deadlines How the SECURE Act is Changing Retirement On December 20, 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act was signed into law. The SECURE Act represents some of the most significant changes to retirement plan law since the passage of the...Jan 23, 2020
Download The Companion Document As you know, the goal of our nation’s retirement system is to create more opportunities for American workers to save and to make it easier for employers to start and maintain benefit plans. With this in mind, Congress just passed, and the President signed, the SECURE Act. SECURE stands for Setting Every Community...Dec 3, 2019
Download The Companion Document Auto-enrollment and automatic contribution increases have proven to be popular and successful retirement plan design features that get more people to save for retirement. A little less known is “re-enrollment.” It’s another important tool we have to help encourage better participant outcomes. And it has the...Nov 19, 2019
On Sept. 23, the IRS published a final rule that relaxes several existing restrictions on participant hardship distributions from defined contribution plans. Some of these changes are mandatory, requiring employers to make the changes by Jan. 1, 2020, while others are optional. Though the IRS had issued the proposed regulations in 2018, the final...