{"id":5559,"date":"2021-06-11T20:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2021-06-11T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:42:03","slug":"watch-that-bonus-deferral-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5559","title":{"rendered":"Watch that bonus deferral election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When there is a plan restatement process, every retirement plan document provider adds some tweaks and removes some tweaks from their plan document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Cycle 3 restatement process, I\u2019ve noticed that most plan documents have removed the separate bonus deferral election that could allow participants a separate election where they could defer up to 100% of their bonus (not that I ever got one).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if a plan sponsor has the election or still allows the same treatment of bonus deferrals like they do ordinary deferrals, I think now is the time to see what they\u2019re doing and what they should be doing with the plan statement process underway.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there is a plan restatement process, every retirement plan document provider adds some tweaks and removes some tweaks from their plan document. For the Cycle 3 restatement process, I\u2019ve noticed that most plan documents have removed the separate bonus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}