U.S. Labor Department offers free compliance assistance seminar for benefit plan professionals in Birmingham, Alabama, June 10

Birmingham, Alabama – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration is offering a free workshop for employee benefit plan professionals, including clients of plan service providers, on Thursday, June 10, at the Birmingham Social Security Center, 1200 Rev. Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd. in Birmingham.

The day-long workshop will begin at 9 a.m. CDT and will include presentations on what to expect from an EBSA investigation and a timely overview of the latest health plan issues, including the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, better known as COBRA, and the premium reduction benefits associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Speakers will provide the latest information on EBSA’s Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program, which allows for correction of violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act without imposition of Internal Revenue Service excise taxes in some cases. A brief update on a new electronic filing system – EFAST2 – will be included in the presentations.

“We want fiduciaries and anyone having responsibility for employee benefit plans to have the very latest information so they can best serve plan participants and beneficiaries,” said R.C. Marshall, EBSA’s regional administrator in Atlanta, Georgia.

The means to register and additional information, including directions on how to find the location, are available at www.dol.gov/ebsa/pdf/birminghamworkshop.pdf. Alternatively, interested individuals may register by contacting EBSA’s Atlanta Regional Office at 404.302.3900. Photo identification is required to enter the building.
For more information about EBSA, visit www.dol.gov/ebsa.

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