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Money Purchase Pension Plans: Send 2024 contributions if you have not already done so. In order to meet the minimum funding standards, contributions must be made by 8 ½ months after the plan year end. A Contribution Confirmation report will be mailed to you on the next business day. Please review it to ensure the contribution … Continued

S-Corporations and Partnerships: Send 2024 employer contributions for your firm’s plan to the Program by September 15 if you received an extension of your firm’s income tax return due date and your firm’s tax year is the calendar year. File Form 5500 electronically with the DOL by today if your firm received an extension of … Continued

Send the 2024 Summary Annual Report (SAR) to participants by September 30 (unless the due date for your Form 5500 is extended to a later date).

401(k) Plans: Return completed mid-year census and nondiscrimination testing information for 401(k) plans to the Program by September 30.

401(k) Plans Intended to Comply with the Traditional or Automatic Enrollment Safe Harbor Requirements: If you sponsor a 401(k) plan intended to meet safe harbor requirements in 2025, you have from October 3 until December 2 to notify your eligible employees of the safe harbor contributions for 2026. If this applies to your plan, the Program … Continued

All Plans: If you have elected a Qualified Default Investment Alternative (QDIA) for your plan, it is required that all participants and beneficiaries on whose behalf an investment in a QDIA may be made in 2026, receive the annual notice by December 2. Please refer to the sample notice and information for more details.

Self-directed brokerage account participant statements are distributed.

3rd Quarter account statements are available.

All Plans: Form 5500 is due to be filed electronically with the DOL by October 16, if your firm filed Form 5558 by July 31, 2024.

Sole Proprietors and Corporations: Form 5500 is due to be filed electronically with the DOL by October 16 if your firm requested a six-month extension of the due date of your firm’s income tax return.

Sole Proprietors and Corporations: Send 2024 employer contributions for your firm’s plan to the Program by October 16 if you filed for an extension of your income tax return due date with the IRS. A Contribution Confirmation report will be mailed to you on the next business day following receipt of contributions.

The Program will be closed in observance of the holiday.

The Program will be closed in the afternoon in observance of the holiday.

The Program will automatically sweep any accounts where an RMD is required if paperwork has not yet been received. Participants have until December 31 to take their RMD.

401(k) Plans Intended to Comply with the Traditional or Automatic Enrollment Safe Harbor Requirements: If you sponsor a 401(k) plan intended to meet safe harbor requirements in 2024, you have from October 3 until December 2 to notify your eligible employees of the safe harbor contributions for 2024. If this applies to your plan, the Program … Continued

401(k) Plans Intended to Comply with the Traditional or Automatic Enrollment Safe Harbor Requirements: If you sponsor a 401(k) plan intended to meet safe harbor requirements in 2026, today (December 1, 2025) is the last day to make a retroactive safe harbor non-elective contribution for the 2025 plan year.

All Plans: If you have elected a Qualified Default Investment Alternative (QDIA) for your plan, it is required that all participants and beneficiaries on whose behalf an investment in a QDIA may be made in 2026, receive the annual notice by December 2. Please refer to the sample notice and information for more details.