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Provided by Elizabeth Deckman

USA

Practice Areas

Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation; Health & Welfare Benefits; Retirement Plans

Career

Liz Deckman has extensive experience advising companies regarding employee benefits and ERISA. She has designed and implemented all types of tax-qualified retirement plans and trusts, including Section 401(k), profit sharing, money purchase, cash balance, and defined benefit plans. Liz also drafts and implements health and welfare plans and advises employers on related issues, such as COBRA, health care reform, and fiduciary issues. She also works with deferred compensation and IRC Section 409A. Liz's work covers issues such as: the effect of new laws on plans, nondiscriminatory coverage and contribution requirements, limitations on benefits, plan defect-correction programs, plan terminations, and early-retirement window benefits. She also assists clients in the employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Professional Memberships

Seattle SHRM, member (2021-present); Western Pension & Benefits Council (immediate past president, 2020-2021; board of directors, 2011-present)

Publications

"SECURE 2.0: Here We Go Again," Seyfarth Beneficially Yours Blog (April 4, 2022); "Supreme Court Asked to Assess Whether City of Seattle’s Hotel Workers Insurance Ordinance Is Preempted," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 1, 2022); "It’s Official: Governor Inslee Signs Bills to Delay and Modify Washington’s Long Term Care Act," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 28, 2022); "Washington State LTC Act; State Not Collecting Payroll Tax from Employers, but Employers to Collect Tax from Employees?" Seyfarth Beneficially Yours Blog (December 29, 2021); "An Early Holiday Present for Washington State Employers; Long Term Care Act Payroll Tax Moratorium Announced," Seyfarth Beneficially Yours Blog (December 20, 2021); "Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Washington State’s Long Term Care Act," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (November 22, 2021); "Requirements for Qualified Retirement Plans, Coverage Requirements," chapter in Bloomberg Law’s Benefits Guide (April 2021); "Do You Have Employees in Washington State? New Long-Term Care Payroll Tax Goes Into Effect January 1, 2022," Seyfarth Beneficially Yours Blog (April 22, 2021); "You May Even Get a Vaccine Before Needing to go to the Notary; IRS Has Extended Remote Witnessing of Participant Elections, "Seyfarth Beneficially Yours Blog (January 6, 2021)

Personal

Pike Market Child Care & Preschool, board of directors (2021-present); Macalester College Parent Council, member (2016-2019); Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound, board of directors (2014-2018)

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