The Employee Benefits Security Administration recently released final regulations that amend existing distribution requirements for defined contribution plans to allow rollovers into inherited IRAs for missing nonspouse beneficiaries. Effective Nov. 6, the rules clarify certain provisions of the Pension Protection Act.
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