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21 - 28 of 28 resultsAdvisory Opinion 1986-06A
Whether a benefit program provided by the Firemen Relief Association of the City of Milwaukee is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of title I of ERISA and therefore is exempt from coverage under that title pursuant to section 4(b)(1) of title I of ERISA.
- ERISA
- Retirement
Advisory Opinion 1986-07A
Whether the St. Louis Police Relief Association's program of benefits is excluded from ERISA title I coverage by ERISA section 4(b)(1) as a governmental plan defined in ERISA section 3(32).
- ERISA
- Retirement
Advisory Opinion 1986-08A
Whether the Insurance Trust of the New Jersey Builders Association is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
- ERISA
- Health
Advisory Opinion 1986-05A
Whether a state law relating to state and municipal taxation of "elective deferrals" of income by participants of plans qualified under section 401(K) of the Internal Revenue Code does not "relate to" an employee benefit plan within the meaning of section 514(a) of ERISA and is therefore not preempted by ERISA.
- ERISA
- Retirement
Advisory Opinion 1986-04A
Whether the Retirement Income Plan for the employees of the Sisters of Mt. St. Joseph Convent, Chestnut Hill, is a church plan within the meaning of section 3(33) of title I of ERISA and, accordingly, whether it is excluded from coverage under title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(2) of title I of ERISA.
- ERISA
- Retirement
Advisory Opinion 1986-03A
Whether the Merion Mercy Academy Defined Benefit Plan, which is established for for the benefit of lay employees of Merion Mercy Academy; the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy at Merion, Pennsylvania; McAuley Convent; and Waldron Academy, is a church plan within the meaning of section 3(33) of title I of ERISA and, accordingly, whether it is excluded from coverage under title I of ERISA.
- ERISA
- Retirement
Advisory Opinion 1986-02A
Whether Shearson/American Express Inc. Retirement Plan’s five individual trustees may retain American Express Asset Management to manage assets held in trust with respect to Shearson/American Express Inc. Retirement Plan and any plans that Shearson may maintain in the future, and that Asset Management may be paid reasonable compensation by Shearson and its participating subsidiaries for performing such services, without engaging in a prohibited transaction under section 406 of ERISA.
- ERISA
- Retirement
- ERISA Sec. 406(b)(1)
- ERISA Sec. 406(b)(2)
- ERISA Sec. 406(b)(3)
- ERISA Sec. 408(b)(2)
Advisory Opinion 1986-01A
Whether the retention by the Plan of an undisclosed company to provide services to the Plan as plan administrator and the payment by the Plan of the direct expenses of the undisclosed company allocable to performing such services (which expenses include the reasonable compensation of employees of the undisclosed company) do not constitute prohibited transactions under section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
- ERISA
- Retirement