Correcting Retirement Plan Compliance Issues Under SECURE 2.0

Ms. Rigterink is a special employee benefits counsel in the Labor Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. In the employee benefits area, her practice focuses on an array of tax and benefits issues impacting both multiemployer and single-employer benefit plans and plan fiduciaries. Ms. Rigterink assists clients on matters pertaining to plan administration, design and qualification, as well as regulatory, legislative and legal compliance.

Mr. Covert joined Laner Muchin in 2008 as an associate and has been a partner at the firm since 2014. He concentrates his practice on employee benefit plan compliance and offers practical advice to provide beneficial outcomes for his clients. Mr. Covert represents a number of Taft-Hartley, multi-employer plans, plan fiduciaries, contributing employers and employer associations in various matters including plan design and compliance, audits, fiduciary responsibility and corporate governance. His experience with a myriad of benefit issues equips him to offer his clients practical solutions in this ever-changing, complex area of the law. Mr. Covert also counsels single employers in various industries as to compliance with various federal laws, especially ERISA and the Affordable Care Act. He also regularly guides clients through the correction programs available through the IRS and DOL and has extensive experience working with regulatory agencies during benefit plan audits. In Illinois, Mr. Covert advises governmental clients on various state and municipal pension matters, PSEBA and other benefit matters.

Mr. Jensen is an associate in the Labor Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. His practice focuses on the design, compliance, and administration of single employer and multiemployer pension and welfare plans. Mr. Jensen helps plan sponsors navigate plan mergers, spin-offs, and terminations, obtain determination letters and compliance statements from the Internal Revenue Service, and implement trust and custodial agreements and other plan-related contracts.