Reading of recent regulatory developments, patterns from active engagements, and the questions we routinely put to plan sponsors, brokers, and counsel. Written by the practitioners doing the work.
A close reading of the Department of Labor's most recent guidance on welfare plan compensation disclosure, the questions it answers for filers, and the larger questions it leaves to interpretation by the regulated community.
Read the publication →Patterns we see in third-party filings — and the corrective approach we take when remediation is preferable to amendment.
ReadFrom the first letter through the on-site interview, the documentation an employer should already have assembled — and the documentation it almost certainly has not.
ReadThe Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program is the cleanest path for most late returns — but not all. A short guide to when remediation looks different.
ReadWelfare plans inherited through acquisitions frequently outlive their original sponsor's documentation. Where the drift begins, and how to bring the plan back to the document.
ReadThe first pass through a 5500 has a structure. We walk through ours — what we look for, what surfaces, and how the review informs the rest of an engagement.
ReadA reading of the standard opening correspondence from a DOL health-plan investigation — and the operational moves that put an employer ahead, rather than behind, the response window.
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A 60-minute conversation with a senior compliance practitioner — focused on your current filing, your current carrier compensation disclosures, and the questions you have not yet been able to put to your existing providers. There is no charge for this initial review.
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