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Welcome to the Snell & Wilmer Benefits Blog. We will be posting about current employee benefits and executive compensation topics and issues. We invite you to contact the authors with your thoughts or questions.Blog Contributors
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‘Tis the Season: Four Year-End Employee Benefit Plan Checklists
Each year, we publish health and welfare, cost-of-living, executive compensation, and qualified retirement plan checklists to help individuals and employers stay apprised of updates to the law of employee benefits. We recently published the last of these annual checklists. In … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged COLA, cost-of-living, Executive Compensation, health and welfare, qualified plans, year end checklist
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Enjoy the End of the Decade with Some Employee Benefit Plan Checklists
Each year, we publish health and welfare, cost-of-living, qualified retirement plan, and executive compensation plan checklists to help individuals and employers stay apprised of updates to the law of employee benefits. We just published the last of these annual checklists. … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged checklists, COLA, cost-of-living, ERISA, Executive Compensation, Internal Revenue Code, qualified retirement plan, to do list
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IRS Announces Reduction in Family HSA Contribution Limit for 2018
In Revenue Procedure 2018-18, the Internal Revenue Service announced a reduction in the HSA contribution limit for family coverage in 2018 to $6,850 from $6,900. The self-only HSA contribution limit for 2018 remains unchanged at $3,450. This change is a … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform
| Tagged COLA, cost of living adjustment, HSA contribution limit, IRS, tax cuts and jobs act, TCJA, transition relief
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Making a List, Checking it Twice – 2017
It’s that time of year when boys and girls start making their lists for the holidays, but we in the employee benefits world make a very different kind of list. In the rapidly changing world of employee benefits and executive … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged Checklist, COLA, cost-of-living, Executive Compensation, health and welfare, qualified retirement plans
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IRS Announces 2018 Cost of Living Adjustments
This post has been updated as of June 7, 2018, to reflect the revised maximum annual HSA contribution limit for family coverage set out in Revenue Procedures 2018-18 and 2018-27. The IRS recently announced cost-of-living adjustments for 2018 in Notice 2017-64 and … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Health & Welfare Plans, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged COLA, cost of living adjustment, defined benefit, defined contributino, ESOP, FSA, HDHP, health and welfare, HSA, key employee, maximum\, qualified retirement, simple
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IRS Announces 2017 Retirement Plan Dollar Limits
The IRS recently announced cost-of-living adjustments for 2017 in Notice 2016-62. The key dollar limits, along with last year’s limits, are noted below. Maximum Qualified Retirement Plan Dollar Limits 2016 2017 Limit on Section 401(k) deferrals (Section 402(g)) $18,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged adjustments, COLA, cost-of-living, dollar limits, notice 2016-62, qualified retirement plan dollar limits
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