Understanding Employee Benefits and key developments in the employee benefits field and items of interest to our clients. MORE

On August 3, 2022, the IRS published Notice 2022-33, which extends the deadlines for amending retirement plans and IRAs to reflect certain changes to the law made by the SECURE Act; the Bipartisan American Miners Act; and section 2203 (allowing waiver of 2020 required minimum distributions) of the CARES Act.  Before the IRS released Notice

This post deals with protecting IRAs in bankruptcy – and the IRA was ultimately protected – but the arguments made are ones that only an ERISA junkie might appreciate.

1. IRAs are protected in bankruptcy only if the IRAs are tax exempt.

2. IRAs are tax exempt only if they do not engage in prohibited

Various promoters have suggested to entrepreneurs that they use the assets in their 401(k) plans or IRAs to finance a new business. These programs are sometimes known by the acronym ROBS, or Rollovers as Business Start-ups. The basic structure involves the entrepreneur’s rollover from a prior employer of the amount in his or her qualified