Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussed nondiscrimination issues including: 1. Separate lines of business regulations and how those blend into 40a-4. 2. Revenue procedures 93-39 on the determination letter process and 93-42 on the substantiation guidelines. 3. Possible extension of the 1994 effective date. 4. Are the regulations really simpler now? 5. Practical problems.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists present the basics of nondiscrimination in pension plans, the provisions of the tax code designed to prevent benefits and contributions from being steered primarily to the higher paid participants in a plan. The panelists discuss the relevant sections of the Internal Revenue Code, including 401[a][4], 410[b], 401[I], 401[a][26], and the recently published regulations. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session at a SOA 1990 Spring Meeting is about the nondiscrimination regulations in employee benefit plans as defined by the Internal Revenue Code and how consultants have advised their clients to comply.