The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, better known as ERISA, is a federal law that affects certain administrative aspects of employee benefit and retirement plans. |
Under ERISA, a welfare plan is any plan, program, or fund that an employer maintains to provide: |
ERISA requires that plan administrators do most of the legwork in complying with ERISA so you may not have to do much of anything unless you're acting as your own administrator. In many cases, ... |
There are a great many forms that must be completed for each ERISA plan. If you're lucky, your administrator (agent/insurance company/retirement plan administrator) will take care of these for you. ... |
When an employee participates in a benefit or retirement plan and he or she gets a divorce, you may be faced with a court order requiring you to take action in one of two situations: |
A Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMCSO) is a legal document from a court of law ordering you to include a child or children as dependents under your employee's coverage. The situation most ... |
Generally, the law prohibits an employee who is entitled to a retirement plan distribution from assigning the payments to someone else. The exception is for Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, which ... |
