{"id":7038,"date":"2023-10-18T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2023-10-18T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T12:59:18","slug":"the-mep-to-pep-conversion-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"The MEP to PEP conversion issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been saying the most successful Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) in the beginning, were going to be multiple employer plans (MEPs) that converted.<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons why a MEP would like to convert to a PEP. The audit savings and the use of a Pooled Plan Provider come to mind. Obviously, eliminating the commonality of MEPs between adopting employers is the number one reason I like PEPs. The problem with the conversion is the devil in the details. Many third-party administrators (TPAs) will also serve as Pooled Plan Provider and will insist they need to be plan sponsors as well. I don\u2019t have to tell you that if a TPA is a plan sponsor, it\u2019s hard to fire them.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been saying the most successful Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) in the beginning, were going to be multiple employer plans (MEPs) that converted. There are many reasons why a MEP would like to convert to a PEP. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7038\">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\/7038"}],"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=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7039,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}