Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JANUARY 16, 2024

Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”), the IRS issued Notice 2024-02 , which addresses SECURE 2.0 Although Notice 2024-02 offers helpful guidance for employers and plan administrators, it does not include hotly anticipated guidance on SECURE 2.0 401(k) Plan : A spin-off plan from a pre-SECURE 2.0 Merger of Pre-SECURE 2.0

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Money Talk

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Workplace Roth Accounts - Effective January 1, 2024, no required minimum distributions (RMDs) are required from workplace Roth accounts (e.g., 401(k), 403(b), 457b, and TSP). Tax Uncertainty - The tax code is written in pencil. This adds a sense of urgency to tax planning strategies such as Roth IRA conversions.

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WEX Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While HSAs combine several of the best features of 401(k)s and flexible spending accounts (FSAs), they are often overlooked and underutilized. Employers’ contributions to employees’ HSAs are tax deductible. In addition, employees’ contributions to their own accounts reduce employers’ payroll taxes.

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Money Talk

JULY 13, 2023

This rule takes effect in 2024 and Roth IRA income limits do not apply. The limit will be the greater of $10,000 or 150% of the standard catch-up amount for 401(k)s and similar salary reduction plans. Employer Retirement Plans - A “starter 401(k)” plan for employers with no current retirement plan will take effect in 2024.

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HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2025

This article unpacks the fringe benefits definition, explores their types and examples, and offers a clear overviewincluding tax implications and practical guidance for employers navigating the IRS fringe benefits guide. 401(k) matching), stock options, or performance bonuses. Compliance is non-negotiable.

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Insperity

OCTOBER 10, 2023

employer-sponsored 401(k) plans. Act seeks to: Open access to 401(k) retirement plans to more people Provide greater opportunities to save Offer financial incentives to save while removing common barriers and penalties So, what does the law require of employers? The SECURE 2.0 The SECURE 2.0

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Among other changes, it: Requires automatic enrollment for new 401(k) and 403(b) plans that are first established after SECURE 2.0’s also extends long-term part-timer rules to 403(b) plans covered by ERISA ( effective for plan years beginning after December 31, 2024 ).

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

JANUARY 30, 2023

As part of our continuing series on SECURE 2.0 , signed into law December 29, 2022, this post focuses on significant changes for section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity plans (“403(b) plans”). Historically, the Code restricted 403(b) plans more than 401(k) plans in terms of the contributions and earnings available for hardship withdrawal.

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Business Management Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The saga of 401(k) catch-up contributions under SECURE 2.0 Beginning with catch-up contributions to be made next year, employees whose Social Security wages (W-2, Box 3 wages) exceed $145,000 this year can make catch-up contributions on a Roth, after-tax basis only. is well known.

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Best Money Moves

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, HR professionals are rethinking benefits strategy going into next year. In SHRMs 2024 Employee Benefit Survey, menopause benefits, gender-affirming care and lifestyle savings accounts are becoming benefits trends for the first time. All of these factors mean that employee needs are changing.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

Act of 2022 —90+ provisions focused on 401(k) and other retirement plans. Congress has chosen to pay for it by mandating that plans offering certain 401(k) features, like catch-up contributions, be made on an after-tax, Roth basis. 401(k) plans established after Dec. which was enacted in 2019.

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Flimp Communications

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Read it here Financial Stress in 2024: Its Real You dont have to look far to find a financial guru counseling calm about the 2024 economy. For example, you might share short explanatory videos designed to unravel the complexities around your companys savings benefits, such as your 401(k) plan or HSA offering.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

On November 1st, the IRS released a number of inflation adjustments for 2024, including to certain limits for qualified retirement plans. As expected, this year’s adjustments are more modest than last year’s significant increases. The table below provides an overview of the key adjustments for qualified retirement plans.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MARCH 7, 2024

If you have staff with health savings accounts, they still have until April 15 to make additional contributions to their accounts if they want to reduce their tax bills for last year. For 2024, the limits are $4,150 for single coverage and $8,300 for family coverage.) Withdrawals to reimburse for these expenses are also not taxed.

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BerniePortal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with inflation at or near 40-year highs, those changes are especially relevant for 2024. The Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, regularly makes changes to adjust its regulations in response to inflation.

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WEX Inc.

MAY 2, 2024

For employers, HRAs or HSAs come with perks, including tax savings and increased employee retention. Health reimbursement arrangement An HRA is an employer-funded benefits plan that employees use to save pre-tax dollars on medical costs. In an HSA, in 2024, a single has a limit of $4,150 and family $8,300. Investment potential.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 9, 2024

In it, she breaks down all the new payroll compliance changes affecting payroll administration in 2024, including post-pandemic trends that don’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. Without further ado, here’s step-by-step guidance for achieving payroll compliance in 2024. not signing up for your 401(k) plan).

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PeopleStrategy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

People like HSAs in part because of their triple tax advantage. Contributions, interest and earnings, and amounts distributed for qualified medical expenses are all exempt from federal income tax, Social Security/Medicare tax and most state income taxes.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

MAY 31, 2024

s increased catch-up contribution limits set to take effect next year, it’s time for 401(k) plan sponsors to brush up on the rules and consider how to administer the changes. Under the current rules, 401(k) plans may allow participants to make catch-up contributions when they are age 50 or older. With SECURE 2.0’s

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Benefits Notes

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For plan years after December 31, 2024, the catch-up contribution limitation is increased to the greater of $10,000 or 50% of the regular catch-up contribution amount for individuals who have attained ages 60, 61, 62, and 63. Effective January 1, 2024, the Act increases the cash-out limit for involuntary distributions from $5,000 to $7,000.

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McNees

AUGUST 2, 2023

Did you know that beginning in January 2024, participants may only make Roth catch-up contributions to their 401(k) (and may not make pre-tax catch-up contributions) if they earned more than $145,000 (as adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury) in the previous year?

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JULY 31, 2023

No RMDs from Roth Accounts Starting with the 2024 calendar year, participants are no longer required to take RMDs from their retirement plan Roth accounts. Decreased Penalties for Missed RMDs The excise taxes for failing to take an RMD have been decreased from 50% to 25% of the RMD amount not taken.

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McNees

AUGUST 28, 2023

Individuals who are 50 years old or older may make additional contributions to 401(k) plans, referred to as catch-up contributions. included a requirement that starting January 1, 2024, only participants who earn $145,000 or less (as adjusted) in the previous year may make pre-tax contributions.

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Higginbotham

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

IRS Announces 2024 FSA, Retirement Plan Limits Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released cost-of-living adjustments and inflation-adjusted limits for 2024 that affect amounts employees can contribute to health flexible spending accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts (IRAs).

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

AUGUST 28, 2023

requirement that certain catch-up contributions to 401(k) and similar defined contribution plans be made on an after-tax Roth basis. requirement applies for tax years beginning after December 31, 2023. More specifically, SECURE 2.0 This SECURE 2.0 Importantly, Notice 2023-62 also fixes a technical glitch in SECURE 2.0

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WEX Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Investing in an HSA differs from a 401(k) or IRA because offers a unique triple-tax advantage: contributions are tax-deductible, growth is tax-free, and withdrawals for qualified medical expenses are also tax-free. This blog post was most recently updated in October 2024. Get our free guide.

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Benefits Notes

AUGUST 29, 2023

Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) required that effective as of January 1, 2024 , participants in 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, or governmental 457(b) plans, who were age 50 or older and whose Social Security wages for the previous year exceed $145,000 (indexed), only be permitted to make catch-up contributions under such plans on a Roth (after-tax) basis.

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HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2024

In his 2024 Annual Chairman Letter to Investors, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink brought attention to a retirement crisis letter that renewed interest in the conversation, discussing strategies on how to address the matter. This money will be tied to taxes so those numbers will move up as well. Fink referenced a U.S.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Constructive receipt is a tax timing rule requiring you to withhold taxes when employees’ pay is set aside for them to access without restriction, regardless of when they are actually paid. Included for the second time in the administration’s budget are new payroll tax rules governing on-demand pay. SECURE 2.0,

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Sutton of Strategic Retirement Partners (aka “The 401k Lady”) said the new rules came out before employers and the industry were ready. Unlike traditional 401ks, Roths are not tax-deferred. With Roth accounts, employees pay taxes on their retirement contributions in their regular paycheck. Sutton’s reasoning … tax math.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

MARCH 16, 2023

First, employee contributions ( e.g. , to health or 401(k) plans) will need to resume when payroll resumes. Employees can miss out on 401(k) and similar deferral opportunities if payroll does not resume by year-end. Employee Benefits Considerations Missed payroll can impact employee benefit plans.

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The Teacher's Advocate

APRIL 10, 2020

Coronavirus Related Distributions What I’m referring to is a provision of the CARES Act that allows certain individuals who have been affected by COVID-19 to withdraw up to $100,000 from their IRA, 403(b), 457(b) or 401(k) without paying the normal 10% federal penalty if under the age of 59 1/2.

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Empuls

JUNE 21, 2024

mostly provided traditional 401(k), while 68% also offered Roth 401(k) plans.  Also known as the 401(k) bill, this makes it mandatory for businesses with 10 or more employees to offer a retirement solution to their employees.   - The same study also revealed that 94% of the employers in the U.S.

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Hppy

JUNE 7, 2018

Of those over 65, nearly 19 percent were working as of 2017 , and by 2024, that number increases to 36 percent of those between 65 and 69 needing to work. Some 401(k) plans increase savings rates over time, and some don’t. Circumstances change, and communication during tax season or open enrollment periods only don’t suffice.

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

AUGUST 28, 2023

In welcome news for plan sponsors, the guidance announces a two-year “administrative transition period” for implementation of this requirement, which was otherwise set to take effect on January 1, 2024. The notice confirms that, despite a drafting quirk in the SECURE 2.0 Under SECURE 2.0,

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 9, 2024

Quick Summary This blog lists the Top 15 HCM Software Platforms after a rigorous review of the top-performing HCMs in the HR space in 2024. Rippling started in 2016 with headquarters in San Francisco, US; ever since, it has experienced significant growth, serving over 2000 customers in 2024 as per the latest reports.

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Money Talk

JANUARY 23, 2025

As I noted in last weeks post , I recently presented a 90-minute 2024 Personal Finance Year in Review webinar for OneOp, and, after the webinar, answered follow-up questions from webinar participants. Congress and the IRS know that many owners of tax-deferred retirement accounts (e.g., the so-called stretch IRA). adult children).

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