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  1. 2025 SECURE ACT: Long-Term Part-Time Employees (LTPTs)

    Effective for plan years beginning after December 31, 2024, long-term, part-time, employees (as defined in SECURE 2.0) must be permitted to make elective deferrals after two consecutive 12-month periods with at least 500 hours of service. This...
  2. Meet Ali Singleton

    Ali Singleton Senior Plan Consultant About Me Ali joined Sentinel in August 2024, previously working as a Plan Consultant, Plan Manager, Conversion Specialist and New Business Consultant. Ali explains, "My team is absolutely fantastic. My ma...
  3. Meet Nick Galliano

    Nick Galliano Plan Consultant About Me Nick joined Sentinel in October 2024, previously working as a Plan Consultant for a third-party administrator in Tampa, FL. He has been in the industry since 2022.  Nick’s main job responsibilities inc...
  4. Plan Compliance Calendar

    Compliance Calendar (for printing or saving) ...
  5. HRA / HSA / FSA Comparison Chart

    Chart comparing key features of HRA, HSA and Medical FSA plans.
  6. Meet Matt Perkins

    Matt Perkins VP, Senior Plan Advisor About Me Matt joined Sentinel Group in 2020 as part of a merger with ABG Michigan (joined ABG in 2007). He works closely with plan sponsors offering fiduciary governance, investment consulting and retireme...
  7. Year End Census Review

    Shortly after your final payroll of a plan year is submitted, Sentinel will prepare a census template which acts as a review of your participant demographics for the plan year. The amount of data contained in this census file will vary based on th...
  8.  Online Contribution Center Instructions

    View our tutorial to learn more about submitting contribution files through our Plan Sponsor website. ...
  9. Meet Erin Hannigan

    Erin Hannigan Plan Consultant About Me Erin joined Sentinel Group in March 2020. Prior to joining Sentinel, she worked for a CPA firm in both their audit and institutional consulting branches, running 401(k) audit engagements and analyzing ...
  10. FSA Election Amounts (Medical & Dependent Care)

    Maximum election amounts allowed for FSA per IRS guidelines.