{"id":7754,"date":"2024-12-11T15:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7754"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:47:37","slug":"controlled-group-determination-affiliated-service-needs-more-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7754","title":{"rendered":"Controlled group determination, affiliated service needs more info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Bears are what we thought they were. Th-they\u2019re what we thought they were. We played them in preseason. I mean, who the hell takes the third game of the preseason like it\u2019s bullshit? Bullshit! We played them in the third game, everybody played three quarters\u2026 the Bears are who we thought they were! That\u2019s why we took the damn field!\u2019 then Arizona Cardinals Head Coach Dennis Green.<\/p>\n<p>The rules of controlled groups and affiliated service group rules have one simple rule, if they\u2019re a member of either, companies of those groups have to be tested as one.<\/p>\n<p>Controlled groups, either are members or not, based on the percentages of ownership and commonality. The same can\u2019t be said about affiliated services, it\u2019s all fact-sensitive. Companies that work together with each other or for third parties are likely affiliated services. If they are separate, they probably aren\u2019t. You will only know if you ask the right questions, and that\u2019s why you need an ERISA attorney to dig through the facts.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Bears are what we thought they were. Th-they\u2019re what we thought they were. We played them in preseason. I mean, who the hell takes the third game of the preseason like it\u2019s bullshit? Bullshit! We played them in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=7754\">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\/7754"}],"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=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7755,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions\/7755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}