Claim for benefits – New England Pension Assistance Project
Date Created: August 22, 2012
Document Type: Claim & Appeal Letters
Plan Type: Single Employer DB
Legal Issues: Retroactive Benefit
Date Created: August 22, 2012
Document Type: Claim & Appeal Letters
Plan Type: Single Employer DB
Legal Issues: Retroactive Benefit
Client's late husband had never received his benefit from plan prior to passing away at age 79. This letter constitutes a claim for benefits payable to his estate from the time he attained Required Minimum Distribution age until the time of his death. We had previously filed a claim for his widow to receive her survivor's benefit. Both claims were successful.
Journal Article: ERISA and the Need for Regulations in Restricting Companies’ Ability to Recoup Overpayment of Pension Funds Made to Struggling Retirees
Date Created: March 1, 2012
Document Type: Training Materials
Plan Type: Multi-employer Plans
Legal Issues: Recoupment
Date Created: March 1, 2012
Document Type: Training Materials
Plan Type: Multi-employer Plans
Legal Issues: Recoupment
2012 National Training – Presentation on Special Issues with Public Pension Plans
Date Created: March 2, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: Government Plans
Date Created: March 2, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: Government Plans
2012 National Training - Presentation by Louis Mazawey at Groom Law on Special Issues with Public Pension Plans, includes PRC fact sheet on spousal issues in public plans
Template – Appealing a plan’s request for a church plan determination
Date Created: March 2, 2012
Document Type: Claim & Appeal Letters
Plan Type: Church Plans
Legal Issues: Procedural Issues
Date Created: March 2, 2012
Document Type: Claim & Appeal Letters
Plan Type: Church Plans
Legal Issues: Procedural Issues
2012 National Training Materials - Sample letter appealing a plans request for church plan determination and includes IRS church plan revenue ruling
2012 National Training Presentation on PBGC and Bankruptcy
Date Created: March 2, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: PBGC Trusteed Plans
Legal Issues: Plan Termination & Freezes
Date Created: March 2, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: PBGC Trusteed Plans
Legal Issues: Plan Termination & Freezes
2012 National Training Presentation by Keightley & Ashner on Dealing with PBGC on Participant Issues and materials (Article on Termination of Pension Plans During a Bankruptcy Reorganization)
2012 National Training – Presentation on Military Retirement and Divorce
Date Created: March 1, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: Government Plans
Legal Issues: QDROs/Divorce
Date Created: March 1, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: Government Plans
Legal Issues: QDROs/Divorce
2012 National Training, Presentation by Marshal Willick on Military Retirement and Divorce, includes presentation and materials (Divorcing the Military: How to Attack, How to Defend - Treatise, Checklist for Military Retirement Cases; Model Clauses set; Military allowances for child-spousal support; Military retirement militant groups; Alphabet Soup CLE)
2012 National Training Presentation – Litigation Update
Date Created: March 1, 2012
Document Type: Caselaw Updates & Summaries
Date Created: March 1, 2012
Document Type: Caselaw Updates & Summaries
2012 National Training Presentation by Denise Clark and Elizabeth Hopkins - Litigation Update (Cigna v Amara)
2012 National Training – Presentation by Gary Stone on Statute of Limitations in Pension Cases
Date Created: February 29, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Legal Issues: Procedural Issues
Date Created: February 29, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Legal Issues: Procedural Issues
2012 National Training - Presentation by Gary Stone on Statute of Limitations in Pension Cases (includes overview and decision in Thompson v Retirement Plan for Employees of S.C. Johnson & Son)
2012 National Training: Case Sharing – NEPAP Successful Appeal
Date Created: February 29, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: Single Employer DB
Legal Issues: Distributions & Form Benefit
Date Created: February 29, 2012
Document Type: National Training Materials
Plan Type: Single Employer DB
Legal Issues: Distributions & Form Benefit
2012 National Training: Case Sharing - NEPAP Successful Appeal in case where plan claims participant was previously paid out
WSPAP Appeal to MSPB for Survivor Benefit to Alternate Payee
Date Created: February 29, 2012
Document Type: Claim & Appeal Letters
Plan Type: Government Plans
Legal Issues: QDROs/Divorce
Date Created: February 29, 2012
Document Type: Claim & Appeal Letters
Plan Type: Government Plans
Legal Issues: QDROs/Divorce
WSPAP Appeal to MSPB for Survivor Benefit to Alternate Payee