When reporting total employees, total participants eligible and total

[MBCarey]

It has been 15 years since I have done a 5500 filing for a Welfare Plan. (only retirement plans). Could someone tell me: when reporting total employees, total participants eligible and total employees participating on Schedule F (125 Cafeteria Plan) should this total correspond to the total active participants on the Form 5500. The numbers I have been given for the 5500 count, the Schedule F count and the count on each of the Schedule A's is different..

Hope I don't sound too stupid. Any insight would help.

Marybeth

[Mike Preston]

There is no such thing as a stupid question if asked in sincerity. Although, you may end up feeling like this one is by the time you finish reading this. ;-)

The Schedule F was eliminated from the Form 5500 series until further notice by the IRS.

It is good to bring this up every once in a while so that others can see this issue that might not be aware of it.