Hood River Vendor Information

Information For Vendors

CCC serves as the clearing house for all aspects of plan administration except for the standard Payroll functions of receiving Salary Reduction Agreements, data entry into the Payroll system, and remittance of contributions to investment companies. The For Vendors main site button up top leads to Vendor-specific information designed to assist vendors in providing up-to-date company and agent information and to assist vendors in seeking payroll slots.

Important Observation

This website is updated on a regular basis to communicate complete and accurate information. We welcome your feedback concerning the website. Please contact us if you have comments or suggestions.

CCC's Relationship with Hood River

CCC serves as the third party administrator (TPA) of the 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plan (TSA) and primary point of contact for the Hood River 403(b) Plan since 10/21/2013. CCC helps with plan administration but is not involved with administration of investment accounts. For questions regarding your 403(b) and 457(b) accounts, including account balances and investment allocations, please contact your investment provider.

Additional Tax-Deferred Savings Information

CCC provides educational information about advantages of tax deferred savings in general, along with links to websites that provide useful commentary and tools. Employer policies, practices, and procedures are available online, along with enrollment steps, Salary Reduction Agreement forms, and instructions for changing investment companies or contribution amounts. CCC monitors contributions for IRS compliance.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you still have questions about your employer's 403(b) plan after browsing other pages of this website, check out the answers to these Frequently Asked Questions.

Information Of General Interest

CCC provides general information that may be of interest, including CCC information & services, employee/participant resources, employer resources, vendor resources, and current CCC clients.

Plan Document for Hood River

If you'd like to review the most recent Hood River iteration/draft of its 403(b) Plan Document that will govern 403(b) policies for Employees of Hood River beginning 1/1/2009, you may do so here. Once the Plan Document is officially adopted by the Employer's Board, the "Draft - Not Effective" banner will be removed.

Payroll Slot Rules and Requirements to Receive Exchanges and Transfers

Rules concerning payroll slots and becoming an eligible vendor to receive exchanges and transfers under the plan are contained in the plan document for Hood River. We encourage vendors to contact CCC for assistance with these processes. The relevant plan document sections for Hood River are linked below:

• Requirements to Gain and Maintain Active or Inactive Payroll Slots;
• Requirements to become eligible to receive Exchanges Within, Plan-to-Plan Transfers Into, and Direct Rollovers Into 403(b) Plans of CCC Full-Service Client Employers;

Which Optional Features Does the District Allow in its 403(b) Plan?

403(b) Optional features are either included in, or excluded from, the Plan, as specified below and as further described in the parenthetically referenced sections in the Plan Document for Hood River County School District. These options are listed here in abstract for convenient reference:

Catch-ups under the Plan
• 15 Years-of-Service Catch-up Elective Deferral Contributions: Yes
• Age 50 Catch-up Elective Deferral Contributions: Yes
Contributions to the Plan
• Direct Rollovers Into the Plan: Yes
• Employer Contributions Allowed: Yes
• Employer Post Severance Contributions Allowed: Yes
• Exchanges Within the Plan: Yes
• Roth Contributions: No
Other Plan Transactions
• Hardship Distributions: Yes
• In-service Distributions After Age 59-1/2: Yes
• In-service Distributions From Rollover Accounts: Yes
• Loans: Yes
• Permissive Service Credit Transfers: Yes
• Plan-to-Plan Transfers To the Plan: Yes
• Plan-to-Plan Transfers From the Plan: Yes

457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan Available

Hood River sponsors a 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan (DCP) in addition to its 403(b) Tax Sheltered Annuity (TSA) Plan. Hood River employees are eligible to contribute to both plans, making it possible to essentially save double the amounts they could contribute to either plan separately, all the while deferring Federal and State income tax on the contributions.

CCC provides specific administrative services to Hood River with respect to its 457(b) Plan, but treatment of CCC 457(b) administrative services on the CCC website remains under development at the present time. Please check back regularly to monitor availability of 457(b) Plan information on this website.

List of Vendors

For a list of 403(b) Contribution Vendors for Hood River County School District, along with additional Vendor information, please visit the List of Vendors page.

Transaction Types - Definitions

Click here for information about the various types of transactions associated with 403(b)accounts and information concerning the submission of transactions to CCC.