Retirement Benefits can be complex and subject to strict regulatory requirements. We handle benefit disputes related to both ERISA and Governmental Plans.
We represent employees who have been denied retirement benefits to which they are entitled. Plans may incorrectly calculate or distribute benefits. Plans may misinterpret plan provisions or misunderstand ERISA pension law or statutory provisions that governed governmental plans. Successfully resolving benefit disputes requires knowledge, persistence, negotiating skills and the ability to think strategically.
Some examples of benefit disputes:
- Refusal to pay benefits
- Miscalculation of the amount of benefit
- Denial of disability retirement benefits
- Spousal consent to elect form of payment
- Collecting arrearage where benefit payments commence to participant without payment to former spouse
- Post judgment correction of pension property settlements
- Cancellation of court ordered life insurance
- FICA liability on payment of nonqualified benefits