Errors in retirement plans happen even to the most well-intentioned plan sponsors. Several decades ago, the IRS published the first version of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution.
Plan sponsors can make additional corrections via SCP, rather than VCP, while a “reasonable amount of time” to discover an error is defined as 18 months.
Baseball season has just started, and retirement plan auditing season will soon kick into high gear. Many plan sponsors don’t see the value of a good auditor; they just see the audit as.
Retirement plan auditing season starts soon. Many plan sponsors don’t see value of good auditor; they see audit as cost of doing business. These days when a plan sponsor becomes aware of an operational problem in the plan, it’s frequently auditor who discovers it.