Documenting Hardship Withdrawals and Loans

The IRS clarified its rules for documentation of hardship withdrawals and participant loans on its website in 2015. With respect to hardship withdrawals, sponsors must retain: Documentation of the hardship request, review and approval, Financial information and...

Be Careful What You Toss

Plan record retention requirements As far as the IRS is concerned, you can’t save too many retirement plan documents. Plan sponsors, on the other hand, might reasonably feel the need to free up file storage space every now and again by purging documents no longer...

Are you ready for endowments?

With baby boomers — the largest and wealthiest generation in U.S. history — expected to transfer trillions of dollars worth of assets in the next few decades, this could be the right time to launch an endowment. Nonprofits have long turned to endowments for help...