Dayton Daily News (OH) November
21, 2019
Nov.
21--The former Day-Mont Behavioral Health Care Inc. and its fiduciaries are
ordered to pay more than $140,000 to employee benefit health and annuity plans.
The
mental health service provider closed in 2018. Its facility was at 1520
Germantown St. in Dayton, with a satellite office at 8145 N. Main St. in
Clayton.
The
judgment announced Wednesday follows an investigation by the U.S. Department of
Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration's Cincinnati office, which
found that the mental health service provider and fiduciaries Gayle Johnson and
Akil Sharif violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by not making
contributions to its annuity and health plans, according to a release.
"The
consent order and judgment ensures that employees who participated in Day-Mont
Behavioral Health Care Inc.'s employee benefit plans will have access to their
hard-earned retirement benefits and have their medical claims paid as they
expected when they contributed their earnings to these plans," said EBSA
Regional Director L. Joe Rivers. "Fiduciaries must work solely in the
interest of plans and participants."
Johnson
and Sharif are ordered to pay $64,582 to the Day-Mont West Tax-Deferred Annuity
Plan participants from Jan. 13, 2012, through Aug. 5, 2016. They also are ordered
to pay $77,084 to employees participating in the Day-Mont Behavioral Health
Care Inc. Employee Benefit Plan, a healthcare plan, from Feb. 20, 2015, through
July 21, 2016.
The
fiduciaries also will pay a civil penalty of $28,333 and are permanently barred
from acting as service providers or fiduciaries to any ERISA-covered plan.
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