“[T]the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued guidance designed to help individuals accumulate and consolidate retirement savings by facilitating the transfer of savings from one retirement plan to another. This guidance will increase pension portability by making it easier for employees changing jobs to move assets to their new employers’ retirement plans…[The] ruling simplifies the rollover process by introducing an easy way for a receiving plan to confirm the sending plan’s tax-qualified status. The plan administrator for the receiving plan can now simply check a recent annual report filing for the sending plan on a database that is readily available to the public online. This eliminates the need for the two plans to communicate (with the individual as go-between), expedites the rollover process, and reduces associated paperwork.”
For analysis by Buck Consultants on this issue, click here.
The IRS’s press release is available here.
For the IRS guidance, click here.
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