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Insights: Publications Court Supports Plans’ Freedom to Craft Own Process for Beneficiary Designations HR Daily Advisor June 8, 2017 Written by Beneficiary designations, and disputes over them, can be a disproportionate drain of time and other resources spent by administrators of tax-qualified retirement plans. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) does not prescribe a particular manner by which participants in ERISA-covered plans must designate their beneficiaries.

Insights: Publications

Court Supports Plans’ Freedom to Craft Own Process for Beneficiary Designations

HR Daily Advisor

June 8, 2017

Written by

Beneficiary designations, and disputes over them, can be a disproportionate drain of time and other resources spent by administrators of tax-qualified retirement plans. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) does not prescribe a particular manner by which participants in ERISA-covered plans must designate their beneficiaries.