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ERIC Offers Guidance on Missing Plan Participants

ERIC sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Labor Preston Rutledge encouraging the DOL to focus its efforts on developing guidance related to the challenge of employers locating missing retirement plan participants.

Legislative Proposal to Expand SCP

ERIC, along with other organizations, sent a letter to Senators Orrin Hatch and Ron Wyden with a proposal to restructure IRS operations. The proposal would direct the IRS to expand the self-correction program within the IRS’s Employee Plan Compliance Resolution System, to enable businesses with retirement plans to more easily correct common mistakes

Joint Association Letter Regarding Missing and Unresponsive Participants

On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we thank you for the meeting we had with your senior staff on May 16 regarding the issue of missing and unresponsive participants and beneficiaries. While we were sorry you could not attend, we had a productive dialogue with staff from the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)