The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance for employers whose 401(k) Plans offer Roth accounts for the rules governing rollovers by participants younger than retirement age. The rules for the conversions, which were first allowed last year, were annotated by Towers Watson, which noted that more than half of the 822 employers (in a company data base
International Paper Co. in Deep Water The Wall Street Journal reported that International Paper Co. agreed to a $30 million settlement in a suit over the company’s 401(k) Plans. The company agreed to distribute the money among some 70,000 individual workers and former participants’ accounts as well as put the plan’s administration out to bid.
The IRS announced Friday that it will start accepting applications for opinion and advisory letters for prototype and volume submitter 403(b) Plans on June 28, 2013. For plan sponsors with such prototype and volume submitter 403(b) Plans, we recommend that you stay in contact with your service providers to ensure your plan will be able