Defined Benefit Plans, Including Cash Balance

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1. Terminated Plan Valuation Date Change

   By SRM, October 15, 2003
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   • Mike Preston
   • October 16, 2003

2. Retained Lump Sums for Top 25 Employees

   By Guest David M, October 14, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 16, 2003

3. Actuarial Equivalence for Late Retirement on Employee Contributions

   By Guest crosseyedtester, October 9, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 13, 2003

4. Davis Bacon Prevailing Wage Benefits in a DB Plan?

   By Guest cascigm, October 13, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 13, 2003

5. FASB 87 (balancing equation)

   By Guest RSNOW, October 9, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 13, 2003

6. cash balance - interest rate assumption

   By Guest Happy Actuary, October 10, 2003
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   • Effen
   • October 13, 2003

7. Late Contributions for S412 but timely for S404 related Problem

   By flosfur, October 11, 2003
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   • Mike Preston
   • October 13, 2003

8. Admin of 412(i) plans

   By pbarrett, October 8, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 10, 2003

9. Reorganization Index for Multi-Employer Plans - Market value or Actuarial value?

   By Effen, October 9, 2003
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   • Effen
   • October 9, 2003

10. 410(b) and 5500 Schedule T - Does this Plan fail?

    By Effen, October 6, 2003
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    • Mike Preston
    • October 8, 2003

11. Overfunded plan with a credit balance; how to establish new bases each year?

    By Blinky the 3-eyed Fish, October 2, 2003
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    • Blinky the 3-eyed Fish
    • October 8, 2003

12. Short Plan Year

    By flosfur, June 5, 2003
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    • Mike Preston
    • October 3, 2003

13. PBGC coverage for professional associations with less than 25 employees

    By Lori Foresz, October 3, 2003
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    • david rigby
    • October 3, 2003

14. How do you fix a 411(b) violation

    By Guest jdw, September 29, 2003
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    • Guest
    • October 2, 2003

15. Cash Balance Plan termination; how to value participants' accounts for distribution purposes?

    By Guest penman, September 23, 2003
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    • IRC401
    • September 30, 2003

16. If a terminated plans's funding deficiency is never corrected, are there potential additional penalties even though there is no longer a funding standard account?

    By Guest Chamelnix, September 30, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 30, 2003

17. Is a one person (self-employed) defined benefit plan subject to required quarterly contributions?

    By Guest Turtle_01, September 29, 2003
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    • Blinky the 3-eyed Fish
    • September 30, 2003

18. Projection of mortality rates; confusing definition of actuarial equivalence

    By Guest Doug Goelz, September 16, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 29, 2003

19. IRS disallowing a deduction taken for year of deposit although required for previous year.

    By Earl, September 24, 2003
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    • mbozek
    • September 25, 2003

20. For section 404 purposes: any difference between nondeducted contributions and nondeductible contributions?

    By Blinky the 3-eyed Fish, September 24, 2003
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    • Mike Preston
    • September 25, 2003

21. Plan Freeze

    By david rigby, September 19, 2003
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    • Mike Preston
    • September 25, 2003

22. ERISA plan converts to a church plan; must the benefits that accrued while it was an ERISA plan be protected?

    By Guest cosmo01, September 23, 2003
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    • mbozek
    • September 24, 2003

23. Underfunded DB plan termination; can family members of business owners waive their benefits, too?

    By Dougsbpc, September 22, 2003
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    • Blinky the 3-eyed Fish
    • September 23, 2003

24. Can employer's 3% contribution to a 401(k) safe harbor plan be used as an offset for a safe harbor Floor Offset DB plan?

    By flosfur, September 20, 2003
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    • Blinky the 3-eyed Fish
    • September 22, 2003

25. New DB plan; Granting credit for more than 5 years of past service (not using 5-year safe harbor); anybody able to show it's nondiscriminatory?

    By Guest pension222, September 19, 2003
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    • david rigby
    • September 22, 2003

26. Anybody getting favorable IRS determination letters on new cash balance plans?

    By Guest RSNOW, September 19, 2003
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    • mbozek
    • September 21, 2003

27. Deductible contributions and tax return due date

    By Guest Alison Williams, July 17, 2002
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    • Blinky the 3-eyed Fish
    • September 19, 2003

28. Allowable Comp Def in 412(i)

    By mwyatt, September 19, 2003
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    • Belgarath
    • September 19, 2003

29. From Individual Agg to EANC

    By Guest Roman, September 18, 2003
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    • Blinky the 3-eyed Fish
    • September 18, 2003

30. Excluding HC's in the general test

    By Guest dietpepsi, September 17, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 17, 2003

31. SFAS 87 and 132

    By david rigby, August 21, 2003
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    • LIBOR
    • September 17, 2003

32. Unfunded accrued liability

    By FAPInJax, September 15, 2003
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    • FAPInJax
    • September 15, 2003

33. Past Service Credit

    By Guest blackacre, September 10, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 15, 2003

34. Coverage Testing

    By LIBOR, September 11, 2003
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    • Blinky the 3-eyed Fish
    • September 12, 2003

35. Excise tax on nondeductible contributions

    By Belgarath, September 10, 2003
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    • Belgarath
    • September 12, 2003

36. permitted investments

    By PensionNewbee, September 9, 2003
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    • David MacLennan
    • September 12, 2003

37. Minimum funding

    By FAPInJax, September 10, 2003
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    • rcline46
    • September 11, 2003

38. Conversion of DB to DC Plan

    By Guest Hedwig, September 10, 2003
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    • AndyH
    • September 10, 2003

39. Actuarial Resource

    By david rigby, September 8, 2003
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    • MGB
    • September 8, 2003

40. Retroactive Annuity Starting Date

    By Guest AEA, September 5, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 5, 2003

41. Variable Rate Premiums

    By Guest jazzy, September 4, 2003
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    • Effen
    • September 5, 2003

42. Suspension of Benefits Notice

    By Effen, June 19, 2003
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    • Effen
    • September 5, 2003

43. Termination of an Underfunded DB Plan

    By Guest Gary A. Luing, September 4, 2003
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    • mbozek
    • September 4, 2003

44. Meaningful Benefit?

    By Guest guppy, September 3, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 4, 2003

45. Minimum Age for DB plans

    By CEB, September 3, 2003
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    • MGB
    • September 3, 2003

46. PBGC Coverage

    By flosfur, August 29, 2003
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    • flosfur
    • September 1, 2003

47. Multiemployer pensin plan withdrawals

    By Guest lisbetf, August 29, 2003
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    • mbozek
    • August 30, 2003

48. Pre-retirement death benefits

    By Guest nsapper, August 28, 2003
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    • david rigby
    • August 28, 2003

49. Deductible Contributions

    By Guest guppy, August 26, 2003
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    • AndyH
    • August 28, 2003

50. Beneficiary under 404(a)(7)

    By Guest pension222, August 27, 2003
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    • Guest
    • August 28, 2003