Employee Benefits
Foster Swift's Employment Benefits attorneys offer a wealth of experience in employee benefits law, allowing them to take a proactive approach in protecting its clients.
Attorneys in this practice area work with hundreds of employers throughout the Midwest, and handle all aspects employee benefits, including:
- Qualified retirement plans
- Non-qualified retirement plans
- Cafeteria plans
- Section 403(b) and (c) annuity programs
- COBRA compliance and other insurance issues
- VEBAs
- Health and other welfare benefit plans
- Benefits litigation (representing employers) and other employee benefit matters
Qualified Retirement
We remain at your service well into retirement, where we work with all types of qualified retirement plans, such as:
- Profit sharing
- Stock bonus
- ESOPs
- Defined benefit
- Money purchase pension
- Target benefit
- Age-weighted
- Cash balance
Non-Qualified Retirement
Our non-qualified retirement plan practice includes:
- Non-qualified deferred compensation-403(b) annuity programs
- Section 409(a) Non-qualified deferred compensation plans
- Tax exempt and government plans qualified under Code §457
- Non-qualified plans that meet the requirements of Code §451, whether top-hat, excess benefit, or other unfunded arrangements.
Retirement programs range in size from small family business plans to programs covering 25,000 participants. The assets of those plans range from under $100,000 to more than $600,000,000.
Over the years, clients have been as varied as the challenges they’ve faced. When it comes time to meet your own unique challenges, you will be comforted to know that the members of our Employee Benefits Practice Group are on your team, drawing upon our breadth of experience and skill to assist you in reaching your goals.
Representative Experience
Publications & Alerts
- New Guidance Issued on Form W-2 Reporting of Employee Health Coverage, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits E-News, January 24, 2012
- IRS Issues Guidance Regarding Tax-Free Treatment of Employer-Provided Cell Phones, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits Quarterly, Winter 2011
- Qualified Plans: Approaching Compliance Deadline for Cycle A Plans, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits Quarterly, Winter 2011
- Qualified Retirement Plan Form 8955-SSA Deadline Approaching/Plan Administrators May Report 2009 and 2010 Data Using the 2009 Form, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits Quarterly, Winter 2011
- Michigan's Health Insurance Claims Assessment Act, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits E-News (also published in the Foster Swift Health Care Law E-News), November 14, 2011
- IRS Announces Pension Plan Limitations for 2012, Foster Swift Employment, Labor & Benefits E-News, October 24, 2011
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