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• 2/29: A Woman's Guide to Pension Rights, by the American Association of Retired Persons (full text)
• 2/28: Report on Retirement Plans of Tax Exempt Organizations, by Reish & Luftman law firm, is now online!
  • January 1996
  • Comments to the Proposed 403(b) Examination Guidelines
  • October 1995
  • Status of IRS Audits of 403(b) Programs
  • June 1995
  • TVC and the Proposed 403(b) Examination Guidelines
  • December 1994
  • Correcting Problems With 403(b) Arrangements: IRS Remedial Programs
  • The Perils of Failing to Follow Plan Provisions
  • The Errant 403(b) Plan
  • July 1994
  • New IRS Assistant Commissioner is Tax Exempt Specialist
  • IRS Is Developing Audit Guidelines for 403(b) Plans
  • $150,000 Limitation on Compensation as of January 1, 1994
• 2/24: IRS Audit Guidelines for §403(b) Plans are now online, in hypertext!
• 2/23: Another addition to our collection: the May 1994 issue of the Reish & Luftman ERISA Controversy Report, including:
  • Beware Those Takeover Cases
  • Amendments -- Follow the Plan's Procedures
  • When "Too Good to Be True" Is
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Administration Firms -- Liability for Benefit Payments
  • Plan Assets Shielded from Creditors
  • Top Hat Plan in a Bankruptcy Case
  • Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be....
  • Liability for Investment Losses
• 2/23: Another addition to our collection: the August 1994 issue of the Reish & Luftman ERISA Controversy Report, including:
  • The Tactical Use of VCR
  • Malpractice Avoidance
  • Representation of Administration Firms
• 2/20: Now online! The splendid ESOP Report from the Reish & Luftman, P.C. law firm
• 2/19: IRS Minimum Distribution Rules for Qualified Retirement Plans and IRAs, an analysis by Raymond J. Rogers, President, Distribution Strategies, Inc.
• 2/14: January 1996 Executive Signal from W F Corroon explains how FAS 123 Includes Major Concessions on Accounting for Employee Stock Options
• 2/14: January 1996 Alert from W F Corroon provides an excellent overview of an employer's use of Contingent Workers
• 2/12: Learn more about the Pension Information Exchange bulletin board system for pension practitioners!
• 2/11: The Inte-greater, now in version 3.4. Finds the best benefit formula under a profit sharing plan for the owner(s) of a small business, by adjusting the plan's integration level. This DOS application shows the owner how much is saved each year if the optimum integration level is used instead of the plan's current integration level, and shows the dollars that would go to each participating employee's account at various employer discretionary profit sharing contribution amounts. Now includes 1996 integration level of $62,700. Click here to download; takes only about a minute to download at 14,400 bps. (82k)
• 2/9: Links fixed: The U.S. Government Printing Office changed its database names without telling BenefitsLink (!), so a couple of our links went sour late this week. We fixed 'em. Now you can again fetch any page from a 1996 issue of the Federal Register or fetch any page from a 1995 issue of the Federal Register or view the table of contents of today's issue of the Federal Register (e.g., to hunt for new IRS, DOL or PBGC regs).
• 2/6: Form 5500-C/R for 1995 must report whether participant contributions have been made within 31 days after withholding from employees' paychecks, says U.S. Department of Labor

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