Download or read book Small Employers and the Challenge of Sponsoring a Retirement Plan written by Paul Joseph Yakoboski and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Challenge of Retirement Savings for Small Employers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coming Up Short written by Alicia Haydock Munnell and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, two experts on retirement policy analyze 401(k) plans, the fastest-growing type of employer-sponsored pensions and a vital source of retirement income for the American middle class.
Download or read book Retirement Security written by Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " About 42 million workers, or about one-third of all private-sector employees, work for employers with fewer than 100 employees, and recent federal data suggest many of these workers lack access to work-based retirement benefits. Despite efforts by the federal government to develop new plan designs and to increase tax incentives, plan sponsorship remains low among small employers. MEPs, a type of arrangement involving more than one employer, have been suggested as a potential way to increase coverage. This testimony describes (1) the challenges small employers face in helping ensure that their workers secure retirement income, and (2) types of MEPs and their potential to address these challenges. GAO drew from its previous reports related to small employer challenges in establishing and maintaining a retirement plan and recent work on MEPs issued from March 2012 through September 2012. "
Download or read book The Employers Handbook to 401 k Savings Plans written by Christian D Rahaim and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Employer's Handbook to 401(k) Savings Plans is a must-have resource for any company that is considering implementing, or is already sponsoring, an employee benefits plan. Author Christian D. Rahaim expertly guides employers through the challenging, ever-changing, and heavily scrutinized processes involved with employee benefits and compensation. Employee participation in 401(k) plans now exceeds eighty percent, making this approachable guide more invaluable than ever before. Rahaim covers the three major components of offering a 401(k) savings plan: preparation, implementation, and maintenance. Rahaim walks employers through the plan-selection process, which involves careful research, analysis, and, most importantly, the assistance of outside experts. He continues with advice on putting the plan into practice, investing 401(k) monies, understanding fiduciary responsibilities, and improving communications. The Employers' Handbook to 401(k) Savings Plans also includes a thorough discussion of recent laws, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Economic Growth and the Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTTRA). Comprehensive but easily understood, The Employers' Handbook to 401(k) Savings Plans is the only source employers, fiduciaries, advisors, and administrators need to remain informed and updated on the increasingly controversial, legislated, and litigated topic.
Download or read book The Challenge of Retirement Savings for Small Employers written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of retirement savings for small employers : hearing before the Committee on Small Business, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held October 2, 2013.
Download or read book Defined Contribution Plans Challenges and Opportunities for Plan Sponsors written by Jeffery V. Bailey and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American workers rely on their employers to provide a way to generate retirement income beyond their Social Security earnings. Many employers still offer traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plans. A growing majority, however, have replaced DB plans with account-based defined contribution (DC) plans. Virtually everyone acknowledges that the basic DC plan design is flawed. Yet as a society with low private savings and a fraying Social Security system, we count on this imperfect structure to serve as a retirement security bulwark. Workers and society both need the employer-sponsored retirement system to function well. Enhancing DC plan design therefore becomes critical. Defined Contribution Plans: Challenges and Opportunities for Plan Sponsors offers guidance to plan sponsors interested in better understanding the primary issues confronting DC plans. We wrote this book from the viewpoint of the plan sponsor seeking to improve the DC system, and it follows five major themes: the plan participant, the plan sponsor, plan design, investments and investment managers, and asset decumulation in retirement. We present the material conversationally from a high-level perspective. We have not sought to write an encyclopedia on DC plans but rather focus on the basic features of well-run plans. We address key challenges facing DC plans and offer associated design and policy recommendations for plan sponsors and other interested parties to consider. Plan design improvements almost certainly will be incremental, rather than sweeping top-down changes mandated by regulators. Plan sponsors individually will make the important decisions that have lasting consequences for participants and for society. Our objective is to spark interest among sponsors, encouraging them to carry out additional research and take action. We believe the DC system will be strengthened by informed sponsors advocating for and implementing thoughtful strategic changes to their plans.
Download or read book Coming Up Short written by Alicia H. Munnell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, two experts on retirement policy analyse 401(k) plans, the fastest-growing type of employer-sponsored pension and a vital source of retirement income for the American middle class.
Download or read book Retirement Savings written by Barbara D. Bovbjerg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only about half of all workers participate in employer-sponsored retirement plans. To foster greater participation among workers who have access to such plans, Congress passed a law that facilitates plan sponsors' adoption of automatic enrollment policies (AEP). To foster greater retirement savings among workers who do not have access to an employer-sponsored plan, proposals have been made for an "automatic IRA" and at the state level for state-based programs. This report determined: (1) what is known about the effect of AEP among the nation's 401(k) plans, and the extent of and future prospect for such policies; and (2) the potential benefits and limitations of automatic IRA proposals and state-assisted retirement savings proposals. Illus.
Download or read book 401 k plans and retirement savings written by John J. Topelski and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2018* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 25 years, defined contribution (DC) plans including 401(k) plans have become the most prevalent form of employer-sponsored retirement plan (ESRP) in the U.S. The majority of assets held in these plans are invested in stocks and stock mutual funds. The decline in the major stock market indices in 2008 greatly reduced the value of many families' retirement savings. Contents of this report: New Challenges to a Secure Retirement Income; Access to ESRP; Participation in ESRP; Contributions to Retirement Savings Plans; Investment Choices and Investment Risk; Fees and Fee Disclosure; Leakage from Retirement Savings Plans; Converting Retirement Savings into Income. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Retirement security written by Charles A. Jeszeck and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 401 k Plans written by Wesley Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employers who sponsor 401(k) plans report using a range of default investment types to automatically enroll employees in their plans based on each type's design and other attributes. Department of Labor (DOL) created a regulatory "safe harbor" in 2007 to limit plan sponsor liability for investing contributions on behalf of employees into default investments when employees do not otherwise make an election. In addition, DOL identified three default investments that, if selected by sponsors, would qualify a plan for safe harbor protection. This book examines which options plan sponsors selected as default investments and why; how plan sponsors monitor their default investment selections; and what challenges, if any, plan sponsors report facing when adopting a default investment for their plan. Furthermore, this book determines what is known about the effect of automatic enrollment policies among the nation's 401(k) plans, and the extent of and future prospect for such policies; and the potential benefits and limitations of automatic IRA proposals and state-assisted retirement savings proposals.
Download or read book The 401 k Plan Management Handbook written by Jeffrey M. Miller and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Employer sponsored Retirement Plans in Increasing National Savings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Retirement Policy Challenges and Opportunities of Our Aging Society written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opportunities for Savings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circular E Employer s Tax Guide Publication 15 For Use in 2021 written by Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employer's Tax Guide (Circular E) - The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), enacted on March 18, 2020, and amended by the COVID-related Tax Relief Act of 2020, provides certain employers with tax credits that reimburse them for the cost of providing paid sick and family leave wages to their employees for leave related to COVID‐19. Qualified sick and family leave wages and the related credits for qualified sick and family leave wages are only reported on employment tax returns with respect to wages paid for leave taken in quarters beginning after March 31, 2020, and before April 1, 2021, unless extended by future legislation. If you paid qualified sick and family leave wages in 2021 for 2020 leave, you will claim the credit on your 2021 employment tax return. Under the FFCRA, certain employers with fewer than 500 employees provide paid sick and fam-ily leave to employees unable to work or telework. The FFCRA required such employers to provide leave to such employees after March 31, 2020, and before January 1, 2021. Publication 15 (For use in 2021)
