Pension and Benefits

PPC's Guide to Compensation and Benefits will help you understand the different types of compensation and benefits that companies are currently offering and their tax implications. It provides clear explanation, analysis, and advice that can be used to quickly evaluate fringe benefit alternatives, ensure compliance with IRS rules, and avoid costly mistakes. This Guide can help employers design compensation plans that motivate key executives including Section 409A nonqualified deferred compensation and stock option plans. It also discusses travel and entertainment expense reimbursement rules, including the proper treatment of company-provided automobiles, computers, and cell phones; and covers the rules for establishing, operating, amending, and terminating all types of fringe benefit and cafeteria plans.

Taxation of Distributions from Qualified Plans provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on how to approach and resolve any issues that may arise in establishing qualified retirement plans as well as planning for and reporting distributions from various types of qualified plans.

PPC's Guide to Small Employer Retirement Plans provides practical guidance for plan advisors, administrators, and fiduciaries for all qualified retirement plan needs - from plan design and administration to termination. Numerous examples, reports, worksheets, and checklists help you to comply with the complex rules applying to qualified retirement plans. Guidance is provided on correcting plan errors and preventing plan disqualification.

PPC’s 5500 Deskbook provides line-by-line guidance for completing the Form 5500 series returns (Forms 5500, 5500-SF, 5500-EZ, 8955-SSA) and the related schedules. It provides an efficient approach to determining filing requirements, obtaining the information needed to complete the reporting requirements, and correctly completing the return. Guidance focuses on the tax return and includes real-life examples and illustrations of filled-in forms, as well as practice aids, to save you time and help you understand the basic concepts involved.

A benefits professional needs a high level of expertise to properly design, revise, implement, and administer non-pension employee benefits plans. The seven-volume Benefits Coordinator provides you with all the tools needed to succeed. The Coordinator includes a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about employee welfare benefit plans, including health care reform, COBRA, family and medical leave, fringe benefits, and more. Also included are practice aids and relevant reprints of the Code, ERISA, regulations, rulings and releases.

PPC's Practice Aids™ - Audits of Employee Benefit Plans is the perfect companion to your subscription to PPC's Guide to Audits of Employee Benefit Plans (EBP). They are Microsoft® Word and Excel versions of all of the editable practice aids in that Guide, and they contain extensive practical considerations and tips to help you conduct your audits effectively and efficiently. They work with leading paperless engagement software or with Word and Excel alone.

Pension Coordinator is a one-of-a-kind pension service combining subject-by-subject analysis, reprints of official source material, planning articles, periodic special studies, and the industry's foremost plan document preparation system. Get authoritative subject-organized analysis, complete with official source materials.

Executive Compensation & Taxation Coordinator is the only compensation service you need to recruit, motivate and retain executive talent.

A must-have resource for employers, administrators, and advisors! EBIA 401(k) Plans on Checkpoint® explains the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA requirements for 401(k) plans, and it explores all sorts of plan design and administration issues. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA Cafeteria Plans is one of the nation's leading resources for cafeteria plan sponsors and administrators, and discusses just about every cafeteria plan design and administration issue. It provides in-depth coverage of legal requirements for cafeteria plans, health FSAs, and DCAPs, and features practical, real-world examples, tips, tables, checklists, and sample documents to keep you in compliance and on top of new developments. 

Health care reform legislation has significantly altered the landscape for obtaining and providing health care benefits. PPC’s Guide to Health Care Reform provides practical easy-to-understand guidance on the key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Additionally, since Congress left much of the implementation to government agencies, it provides ongoing coverage of IRS, DOL, and HHS pronouncements to help you stay abreast of developments as they occur.

Federal Taxation of Employee Compensation provides comprehensive descriptions and discussion of the relevant income tax rules that affect:

• Deferred compensation arrangements
• Employee stock options
• Employee fringe benefits other than deferred compensation and stock options
• Employer deductions for employee compensation

EBIA Fringe Benefits provides employers and advisors with the top-notch legal analysis, practical tips, and useful examples they need to understand what fringe benefits are and to be able to compare, choose, and implement various fringe benefits plans: pre-tax transportation plans, adoption assistance plans, educational assistance plans, vacation/paid time off (PTO) plans, moving expenses, and employee discounts. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

EBIA Group Health Plans: Federal Mandates Other Than COBRA & HIPAA covers important federal mandates for group health plans that are often overlooked: QMCSOs, the Mental Health Parity Act, minimum hospital stays for newborns and mothers, the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act, federal employment laws affecting group health plans (FMLA, ADA, ADEA, USERRA, etc.), Medicare Part D notice requirements, Medicare Secondary Payer, HMO nondiscrimination requirements, etc. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA Health Care Reform is your essential partner for employer plan compliance, and provides up-to-date expert analysis of the key requirements that affect employers, advisors, and insurers. It features in-depth coverage of legal requirements and information critical to effective decision-making - with examples, tables, implementation timelines, sample documents, and practical tips that will help you comply with the myriad of complex rules

Having to find State Law outside of a research system is a huge challenge for customers and takes an incredibly long time. This comprehensive collection of state employee benefits statutes, regulations and case law provides employee benefit professionals with the access that they need to find the primary authority that they are looking for when they need it across 51 jurisdictions. Anyone responsible for benefits compliance—employers, advisors, attorneys and service providers—can use our collection of state employee benefit statutes, regulations and case law to find the information they need in one place across 51 jurisdictions.

EBIA HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security includes comprehensive coverage of HIPAA's requirements for group health plans. It includes HIPAA's privacy and security rules (and EDI and other administrative simplification rules), and HIPAA's portability rules, including pre-existing condition exclusions (PCEs), HIPAA certificates, special enrollments, nondiscrimination, insurance market provisions, etc. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA Self-Insured Health Plans answers your questions about what it means to self-insure a health plan, why employers choose to self-insure, and what challenges to expect when changing from an insured plan to a self-insured plan. It walks you through each step of establishing and maintaining a self-insured health plan - from plan design, drafting, and funding decisions, through plan administration and compliance issues - with the aid of sample documents, checklists, and practical examples.

EBIA ERISA Compliance for Health and Welfare Plans on Checkpoint discusses what benefits are subject to ERISA, then explains ERISA's requirements in detail with examples, checklists, court case summaries, tables, Q&As, and compliance tips. It includes in-depth coverage of reporting & disclosure requirements (Form 5500, SPDs, etc.), fiduciary duties, benefits claims procedures, plan documents, handling of participant contributions, benefits disputes, and much more. Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint (including archives).

Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, EBIA's Consumer-Driven Health Care provides employers and advisors with the top-notch legal analysis, practical tips, and useful examples they need to understand what consumer-driven health care is and to be able to compare, choose, and implement various tax-favored arrangements, such as health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). Also included are sample documents and EBIA Weekly on Checkpoint® (including archives).

EBIA COBRA: The Developing Law explores the nuances of COBRA using real-life examples as a platform for discussing the complicated COBRA rules. Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, it answers your tough questions and provides comprehensive guidance on all aspects of COBRA administration. In-depth discussions, along with numerous tables, checklists, and sample documents, will keep you informed of current legal developments and assist you in your COBRA compliance efforts.