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Plan Termination Answer Book, Fourth Edition by Joan Gucciardi, Ilene Ferenczy

Keep your rising retirement plan terminations in compliance!
Plan Termination Answer Book, Fourth Edition
by Joan Gucciardi, Ilene Ferenczy
List Price: $290.00  
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Imprint: Aspen Publishers
ISBN: 9780735560093
Hardcover: 640 pages
Publication Cycle: Supplemented annually
Last Updated: 4/27/2010
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Plan Termination Answer Book helps you systematically address each issue that needs to be considered in the plan termination process and comply with the latest regulations, so you can avoid costly mistakes. From determining what options are available when terminating a defined benefit plan with insufficient assets to understanding the tax implications of outstanding loans on terminations, there's simply no other resource like it for busy pension plan professionals.

Among the many topics covered in the Plan Termination Answer Book are the following:

  • Various requirements of the different governing agencies
  • Qualification areas that must be addressed in a plan termination
  • Options for terminating a defined benefit plan with insufficient assets
  • Circumstances under which a money purchase plan may be terminated
  • Special procedures and rules for terminating a multi-employer plan
  • Considerations for partial terminations
  • Steps to follow for "distress terminations" and their implications
  • Matters concerning plan mergers
  • And more!

Starting with an overview of the legal, administrative, and tax requirements for all types of plans, practitioners will find expert advice on:

  • When to terminate Alternatives to termination
  • How to comply with regulations
  • Vesting of participants' benefits
  • Implications of multiemployer plans
  • And more!


    1. General Considerations in Terminating a Plan
    2. Non-PBGC Covered Plans
    3. Defined Benefit Plans Covered by the PBGC's Plan Termination Insurance Program
    4. Termination of Multiemployer Plans
    5. Determination of Benefit Liabilities in a Defined Benefit Plan
    6. IRS Termination Process
    7. PBGC Termination Process for Single-Employer Plans
    8. Surplus Assets in a Defined Benefit Plan
    9. Distributions from Terminated Plans
    10. Special Distribution Issues
    11. Special Plan Termination Issues
    12. Frozen Plans
    13. Partial Plan Termination
    14. Spin-Offs
    15. ;Appendices
    • Appendix A: 120 Percent of Federal Midterm Rate
    • Appendix B: Section 417(e) Interest Rates
    • Appendix C: 30 Year Treasury Securities Rates
    • Appendix D: Mortality Tables
    • Appendix E: Determination of HCEs
    • Appendix F: Determination of Key Employees
    • Index

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Defined Benefit Answer Book, Fourth Edition by G. Neff McGhie

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Handbook on ERISA Litigation, Third Edition by James F. Jorden, Waldemar J. Pflepsen, Jr., Stephen H. Goldberg

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