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Terminating 403(b) Plans: IRS Rules, Fiduciary Liability, Distribution of Assets, Required Notices to Participants

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June 23, 2021
Recorded Online
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This webinar will guide ERISA counsel and fiduciaries on the complex rules and pitfalls to avoid terminating a 403(b) plan. The panel will discuss ERISA rules and requirements for plan terminations, recent IRS Revenue Ruling 2020-23 and Notice 2020-80, distributions upon termination, annuity and consent rules, and other critical items.

Description

Employers who maintain a 403(b) plan may decide to terminate their 403(b) plan. However, superior knowledge of ERISA and IRS rules is required to terminate the 403(b) plans formally. Failure to do so will continue to subject employer plan sponsors to maintaining plan document compliance and the filing of reports and notices with the government and participants.

Generally, 403(b) plans are available to public schools, cities, townships, tax-exempt organizations, or churches. These employers must invest plan assets in annuities, mutual funds, and retirement income accounts. Formal termination includes corporate action to terminate the plan followed by distributing the plan assets according to Treas. Reg. Sec 1.403(b)-10(a)) as soon as possible. However, individual or group annuity contracts or individual or group custodial accounts, described in Code Section 403(b)(7), fund the accounts, complicating distributions and terminations.

Rev. Rul. 2011-7 provided guidance on annuity contracts distributions, holding that they can be deemed to be distributed by delivery to participants or beneficiaries of an individual annuity contract or under a group annuity contract. Recently, the IRS issued Rev. Rul. 2020-23 and related Notice 2020-80 distribution procedures for custodial accounts maintained under Code Section 403(b)(7).

Listen as our panel discusses the rules and requirements for 403(b) plan terminations, recent IRS Rev. Rul. 2020-23 and Notice 2020-80, distributions upon termination, annuity and consent rules, and other critical items.

Outline

  1. Legal implications and risk when terminating 403(b) plans
  2. Recent IRS guidance
    1. Rev. Rul. 2020-23
    2. IRS Notice 2020-80
  3. Annuity and consent rules
  4. Distributions upon the termination of 403(b) plan
  5. Administrative pitfalls and liability

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