Year-End Retirement and Welfare Plan Issues and a Look Ahead to 2014

Vorys attorney Linda Mendel was a speaker at the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Seminar on October 29, 2013. Her presentation was titled Year-End Retirement and Welfare Plan Issues and a Look Ahead to 2014 and discussed recent developments and actions that should be completed by year end as well as hot issues to watch.

Topics Ms. Mendel focused on included:

• Year-end retirement plan amendments
• Issues in the determination review process
• EPCRS for late amendments
• Implications of the postponement of the Code §4980H employer shared responsibility
• Group health plan mandates going into effect
• Reinsurance payments
• Wellness programs