The IRS has issued Notice 2014-35 which provides relief from late-filing penalties from the annual reporting requirements under Form 5500 series with respect to employee benefit plans. Under the notice, the IRS will not impose penalties relating to the filing of Form 5500, Form 5500-SF, and Form 8955-SSA or the filing of required actuarial reports with
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. Read More
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.