"Deb's practice has focused on ESOPs and ESOP transactions for almost 10 years. She works directly with clients, services providers and experts in all phases of implementing and administering ESOPs and structuring and completing ESOP transactions."


Welfare

Chang, Ruthenberg & Long advises multiemployer and single-employer plan sponsors and fiduciaries on all aspects of employee welfare benefit plans, including: design; summary plan descriptions (SPDs); plan documents; set-up; administration; reporting (avoiding multiple Forms 5500); nondiscrimination testing; domestic partner taxation; fiduciary representation; assessment and counsel for plan improvement or compliance; redesign and coordination in connection with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and termination.

Welfare benefit plans are a complicated and expensive component of business management. Our detailed understanding of your business's needs:

  • Is based on over 25 years of experience with employee benefits law.
  • Ensures that complex ERISA, Internal Revenue Code, and other legal requirements are met in the most practical and effective way possible for your specific plan.




Expertise

  • Retiree health plans - GASB Statements 43 and 45
  • Cafeteria plans
  • Medical expense reimbursement plans
  • Health reimbursement arrangements
  • Health Savings Arrangements (HSAs)
  • Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs)
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 419/419A plans
  • Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
  • Compliance review of qualified medical child support orders (QMCSOs)
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • Dependent care assistance programs
  • Educational assistance programs

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