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.

From retaining key executives to designing and implementing a comprehensive compensation system, PPC's Guide to Compensation Planning for Small Businesses equips you with the knowledge and practical guidance to develop and administer optimal compensation and fringe benefit plans that help small businesses stay competitive by motivating key employees and preserving important tax benefits.

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.

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.

An unparalleled source for full-text official documents and digests of IRS, DOL, PBGC and court rulings.

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. 

Qualified Pension & Profit Sharing Plans delivers the best ideas and strategies for designing, maintaining, and terminating qualified retirement plans.

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.

Executive Compensation Libraryis a complete source for executive compensation news, research, analysis and sample plans.

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

Our Cafeteria Plans manual is the nation's #1 resource for cafeteria plan sponsors, administrators, and advisors. The Cafeteria Plans manual provides in-depth coverage of all legal requirements for cafeteria plans, health FSAs, and DCAPs. With numerous examples, tables, and charts, the manual discusses just about every imaginable plan design and administration issue. Subscribers love the depth of our legal analysis and our practical, real-world tips.

Since 2000, benefits professionals have relied on the EBIA Newsletter as an easy and cost-effective way to keep up on new developments as they occur! Written and edited by experienced employee benefits attorneys, the EBIA Newsletter is published on Fridays and includes articles on significant legal developments (federal statutes, regulations, other federal agency guidance, and selected court decisions) within the scope of EBIA's benefits compliance library

EBIA Suite includes eight employee benefits compliance manuals, covering cafeteria plans, consumer-driven health care, fringe benefits, and 401(k) plans, as well as laws such as COBRA, ERISA, HIPAA, and others. Our nationally recognized manuals are written by experienced employee benefits attorneys and are relied upon by employers, administrators, advisors, and government officials. Each manual explains and analyzes the law, and features practical examples, tips, checklists, tables, and sample documents. You'll also receive the EBIA Newsletter, our weekly newsletter covering the latest employee benefits developments

EBIA Welfare Benefits Libraryprovides you with access to seven topic-specific products, as well as the EBIA Newsletter and a host of primary source material.

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

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).