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On November 15, 2024, U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s 2024 regulations for executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) employees, which raised the minimum salary employers would be required to pay EAP employees to maintain their overtime exempt status under the Fair Labor Standards Act. [1]

The Secure Act, passed in 2019 and updated in 2022, made significant changes to the required minimum distribution (RMD) rules applicable to qualified retirement plans, IRAs, 403(b) plans, and other eligible deferred compensation plans. In addition to increasing the age for RMD-required beginning dates, the Secure Act required the full distribution of the account balances from these plans within 10 years of an account holder’s death for most non-spouse designated beneficiaries, regardless of whether distributions had begun. Prior to the final regulation, there was confusion as to whether a designated beneficiary of an inherited account had to take RMDs during the 10-year period or whether he or she could wait to receive the entire account balance at the end of the 10-year period. The final regulations, which became effective on September 17, 2024, provide clarity.

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