Not only do Seyfarth’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Department attorneys and professional staff focus on complex employee benefit plan-related needs of our clients; we are also well-versed in handling common administrative benefit plan-related matters.

Our full-service Seyfarth Benefits Consulting offering is aimed at getting HR and employee benefit personnel out of the more routine day-to-day administrative benefits legal work and provide resources to manage these matters, including but not limited to:

• Claims Administration
• Compliance reporting, review, preparation and submission of annual reports (Form 5500s) and “top hat” plan filings for non-qualified plans, compilation and submission of delinquent filer voluntary compliance program (DFVCP) filings 
• Determination Letter Filings
• HIPAA Privacy
• Legal instrument and Levy Review 
• Nondiscrimination Testing
• Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) Administration
• Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMCSO) Administration
• Legal instrument and Levy Review 
• Special client administrative projects, such as internal procedural audits of existing administrative policies and practices, review of employee/participant communications related to administrative services, conduct, missing participant address and death searches, and training

Utilizing SeyfarthLean methodologies, we are able to offer many of these services for a flat fee.

What We Are Providing

For Plan Sponsors

• Collaboration with plan sponsors and their staff to provide an administrative solution to benefit matters so plan sponsors and their staff can focus on their core business
• High-quality and personal representation with extensive knowledge and vast experience in employee benefits
• Standardization and best practices to reduce costs
• Team approach—work with plan sponsors, staff and third party administrators (side-by-side)
• Conduct regularly scheduled status calls
• Tailored services to meet plan sponsors needs
• Variable Fee Structures
  • Fixed rate - predictable cost
  • Hourly rate/Blended rate
  • Negotiated project rate

For Plan Participants

• Knowledge resource
• Timely response
• Toll-Free telephone support, if applicable