{"id":1282,"date":"2023-10-30T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2023-10-30T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:14:27","slug":"secure-act-long-term-part-time-employee-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2023\/10\/30\/secure-act-long-term-part-time-employee-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"SECURE Act: Long-Term Part-Time Employee Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Retirement-Resized2-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1684\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Retirement-Resized2-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Retirement-Resized2-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Retirement-Resized2-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Under the long-term part-time (LTPT) employee rule of the SECURE Act, part-time employees who work at least 500 hours during three consecutive 12-month periods must be eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. &nbsp;The 12-month periods began as of January 1, 2021, so the first time a&nbsp;LTPT&nbsp;employee could become eligible under this rule will be January 1, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackson Lewis:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitslawadvisor.com\/2023\/10\/articles\/401k-plan\/the-time-for-long-term-part-time-employee-eligibility-compliance-has-nearly-arrived\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Time for Long-Term Part-Time Employee Eligibility Compliance Has Nearly Arrived!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the long-term part-time (LTPT) employee rule of the SECURE Act, part-time employees who work at least 500 hours during three consecutive 12-month periods must be eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. &nbsp;The 12-month periods began as of January 1, 2021, so the first time a&nbsp;LTPT&nbsp;employee could become eligible under this rule will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}