"The [memorandum to IRS EP employees] provides for some flexibility to employers and TPAs by allowing them to rely on summaries of information from participants. Employers and TPAs that currently require source documents to substantiate hardship distributions do not need to make any changes to their procedures. While they may want to consider whether collecting summaries might streamline their practices, their current practices assure that documentation is available upon an audit without having to rely on participants' recordkeeping abilities to satisfy any substantiation requests by the IRS."

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