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Allocating Administrative Costs: What Your Benefits Adminstrator Needs To Know

The Employee Benefit Security Administration of the Department of Labor (DOL) has recently announced a more liberal view toward charging tax-qualified retirement plan expenses against the accounts of participants in 401(k), ESOP, and other defined contribution plans. This article provides a brief overview of the kinds of expenses that plans may pay and then explains how the new DOL guidance provides employers and plan sponsors with greater flexibility in allocating these expenses to participant accounts.

26 minute read December 01, 2003 at 01:53 PM
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Mark Poerio And Eric Keller
Allocating Administrative Costs: What Your Benefits Adminstrator Needs To Know

The Employee Benefit Security Administration of the Department of Labor (DOL) has recently announced a more liberal view toward charging tax-qualified retirement plan expenses against the accounts of participants in 401(k), ESOP, and other defined contribution plans.

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