The leader in benefit distribution processing.
PenChecks Trust™ is the largest and most trusted independent provider of fully compliant retirement plan distribution services. The experts in Missing Participant and Default IRAs, we help plan providers, plan sponsors and third-party administrators reduce risk, lower administrative costs and increase efficiency.
Our comprehensive outsourced solutions include benefit payments processing, setting up Default IRA’s, finding missing participants, handling uncashed checks, and more. Whether you need to make regular pension plan distributions or a large number of one-time payments, we offer cost-effective retirement distribution strategies that meet your budget and your distribution processing needs.
Retirement Distribution Processing
Distributing retirement plan assets can be a time-consuming and costly process. PenChecks can lighten your administrative workload with a complete menu of innovative retirement plan distribution services that save time, reduce risk, and lower operating costs.
Automatic Rollover (Default) IRAs
Automatic rollover (Default) IRAs provide a safe, cost-effective tool for managing plan assets for participants who have gone missing or fail to respond to benefit election requests. PenChecks rollover IRAs help you avoid unnecessary retirement plan administration expenses while reducing your fiduciary exposure.
Uncashed
Checks
Uncashed retirement plan checks can require significant time and expense to resolve while posing financial risk to your business and plan fiduciaries. PenChecks uncashed check solutions eliminate these outstanding liabilities, helping you save time, reduce risk, and enjoy peace of mind.
Abandoned
Plans
PenChecks helps you safely negotiate the complex and highly regulated process of winding down abandoned plans and distributing their assets. Using a variety of Qualified Termination Administrator services, we make it easy to comply with Department of Labor abandoned plan termination requirements.
Recurring Benefit Payments
PenChecks’ Recurring Benefit Payment Distribution Service delivers timely payments while keeping you compliant with all payment processing regulations. We handle all state and federal tax withholding, remittance and reporting requirements while providing a choice of monthly, quarterly, biannual or annual distributions.
Alternative Payment Processing
PenChecks’ alternative payment processing service provides a cost-effective solution for lump sum or rollover distributions, and a single point of benefit distribution processing regardless of your custodial or recordkeeping platform. We also manage payments related to class action settlements, membership programs, and more.
PenChecks Expert Series Online Webinars
As part of our commitment to ongoing education and management best practices, we offer on-demand webinars presented by outside industry experts on a wide variety of retirement plan distribution and general management topics. Access our full webinar library here
Upcoming PenChecks Events
NAPA 401(k) Summit, Las Vegas, NV
April 7, 2019 – April 9, 2019
The NAPA 401(k) Summit is the nation’s largest and most prestigious retirement-plan advisor event, and the only industry convention that brings you actionable, unbiased content designed for advisors by advisors. Come out and meet the PenChecks Team.