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Guest jetfaninmn
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Just a question on how others are handling this plan provision. We have amended a majority of our plans to force payouts under $ 1,000. We have done this to avoid setting up the IRA for the $1,000 to $5,000 balances.

In practice, are administrators giving the participant notice (30 days for example) at the time of termination to make a decision on what to do with their funds, or are they just paying them out the full balance and putting the rollover onus on the participant?

Just wondering.

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For amounts over $200 you MUST give the Notice of Tax Treatment, so you may as well give them the option, ie no force, with a response time of 30 days. After 30 days do the force.

Your notice should warn them of the impending force out if no response.

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They can't just pay an eligible rollover distribution over 200.00 without a notice. The 402(f) notice requirement still applies.

Oops - I see Rcline already replied.

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