The number one Plan administration procedure for all employer-sponsored retirement plans is to follow the plan document. To bridge this, Plan Sponsors will set-forth plan specific procedures to ensure the terms of the Plan document carry over to the Plan’s operation (safe-guards).
What can occur is that not everyone working on the Plan has read the plan document, or another example is when the plan moves to another provider’s document and/or service agreement and differences exist.
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