On April 4, 2014, the IRS issued Notice 2014-19, which provides guidance on how qualified retirement plans should treat the marriages of same-sex couples following the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor. The Windsor decision invalidated Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that barred married same-sex couples from being treated as married under
This week has been a busy week for plan fiduciary cases. First, the Eighth Circuit issued its widely anticipated excessive fee decision in Tussey vs. ABB. Next, the Supreme Court signaled it may be interested in deciding whether 401(k) plan fiduciaries can be in breach of their duties over investment choices. Lastly, the Supreme Court
The U.S. Department of Labor on March 11, 2014 requested public comments on a proposed rule that would require pension plan service providers to furnish employers and other plan fiduciaries with a guide to assist them in navigating fee disclosure documents. “The department’s recent fee disclosure rules were a good first step in bringing transparency
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