Employee Benefits Guide

Employee Benefits Guide, Second Edition is an essential and comprehensive resource designed to explain the laws that govern retirement plans, deferred compensation plans, and group health and other welfare plans established by employers or jointly by employers and labor unions, and also show the structure of those laws and the principles underlying them.

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Employee Benefits Guide, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource designed to explain the laws that govern retirement plans, deferred compensation plans, group health and other welfare plans established by employers or jointly by employers and labor unions. The principal emphasis of the Employee Benefits Guide, Second Edition is on:

(i) compliance with ERISA, and federal tax and labor laws governing retirement plans, other deferred compensation arrangements, group health plans, and other welfare plans;

(ii) the fiduciary duties of persons who have discretionary authority over plan assets and administration; and

(iii) the resolution of disputes, including plan claims procedures and litigation.

This essential resource is intended as a reference work for experienced employee benefits lawyers; as a quasi-textbook for apprentices in employee benefits; as a research starting point for lawyers who don’t practice intensively in this area; as a readable resource for employee benefits professionals who are involved with the administration of employee benefit plans; and as a vade mecum for those that find themselves puzzled by the concepts and terminology used by their benefits consultants and lawyers.

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Table of contents

Part I: Overview of Employee Benefits, Key Concepts and Sources of the Law

CHAPTER 1 Purpose and Coverage of This Guide

CHAPTER 2 A Map of Employee Benefits

CHAPTER 3 Sources of the Law

Part II: Qualified Retirement Plans (General Principles)

CHAPTER 4 Plan Establishment and Qualification

CHAPTER 5 Eligibility, Vesting and Benefit Accrual

CHAPTER 6 Nondiscrimination Standards and Related Rules

CHAPTER 7 Contributions to Qualified Plans

CHAPTER 8 Distributions from Qualified Plans

CHAPTER 9 Taxation of Participants

CHAPTER 10 Assignment or Alienation of Benefits

CHAPTER 11 Plans for Self-Employed Individuals

Part III: Defined Benefit Pension Plans

CHAPTER 12 Benefit Accrual

CHAPTER 13 “Hybrid” Pension Plans

CHAPTER 14 Nondiscrimination Standards and Related Rules for Defined Benefit Plans

CHAPTER 15 Defined Benefit Plan Contributions and Funding

CHAPTER 16 Distributions from Defined Benefit Plans

CHAPTER 17 Funding-Based Restrictions on Benefit Accrual and Distributions

CHAPTER 18 Plan Freezes and Closures

CHAPTER 19 Insurance Contracts in Defined Benefit Plans

CHAPTER 20 Plan Termination Insurance and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

CHAPTER 21 Termination of PBGC-Insured Defined Benefit Plans

CHAPTER 22 Termination of Non-Insured Defined Benefit Plans

Part IV: Defined Contribution (Individual Account) Plans

CHAPTER 23 General Rules for Defined Contribution Plans

CHAPTER 24 Investment of Defined Contribution Plan Assets

CHAPTER 25 Nondiscrimination Standards for Defined Contribution Plans

CHAPTER 26 Cash-or-Deferred (401(k)) Plans

CHAPTER 27 Stock Bonus Plans and Employee Stock Ownership Plans

CHAPTER 28 Other Defined Contribution Plans

CHAPTER 29 Combined Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Arrangements

Part V: Plans Covering Employees of Unrelated Employers

CHAPTER 30 Multiemployer Plans: General Rules

CHAPTER 31 Multiemployer Pension Plans: Contributions and Funding

CHAPTER 32 Multiemployer Pension Plans: Withdrawal Liability

CHAPTER 33 Multiemployer Pension Plans: PBGC Benefit Guarantees and Financial Assistance

CHAPTER 34 Multiemployer Pension Plans: Mergers, Asset Transfers and Plan Terminations

CHAPTER 35 Multiple Employer Plans

Part VI–IX: (CHAPTERS 36–56) Reserved

Part X: Fiduciary Standards, Prohibited Transactions and Dispute Resolution

CHAPTER 57 ERISA Fiduciary Standards

CHAPTER 58 Prohibited Transactions

Glossary of Terms

Table of Cases

Index