Benefits - Retirees

The IRS recently issued long-awaited final regulations on hybrid pension plans, along with proposed transitional relief for hybrid pension plans that are not in compliance with the final rules. The newly issued final rules provide guidance on issues not covered in the final hybrid plan regulations t

Q: When is a retirement account not a retirement account? A: When it's an inherited IRA and the owner is bankrupt.

Do you sponsor a tax-qualified retirement plan that was pre-approved by the IRS? If so, pre-approved documents take one of two forms.

On April 4, 2014, the Department of the Treasury issued its long-awaited supplemental guidance on when and how tax-qualified retirement plans (including 401(k) plans) must comply with Windsor v. United States, in which the Supreme Court held that federal laws must recognize valid same-sex marriages.

The First Circuit recently issued a decision in Bonneau v. Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 51 Pension Trust Fund, No. 13-1515 (1st Cir. Nov. 15, 2013). This interesting case addresses an open question – when a pension plan is amended to enhance benefits based on prior service, are those benefit enhance

The Internal Revenue Service has released a detailed list of pension plan and other retirement-related contribution limitations for Tax Year 2013 that were triggered by increases to the cost of living. A number of the pension plan limitations will change for 2013 because the increase in the cost-of-

As an employee reaches retirement age, he may want to retire or cease working full-time. The employer, however, may need or want the employee to continue to work temporarily or on a part-time basis. The employee wants to begin to receive his pension plan payments. A frequent question in this scenari