Submit your forms as follows: 1) Inquries and questions can be sent via email to the Plan. Similarly, if any distributions were subsequently paid to directors from your co-op's general assets, a Form 1099-NEC must be provided to those participants.Deferred compensation refers to money received in one year for work performed in a previous year often many years earlier. Deferred compensation is a plan that allows employees to delay receiving a portion of the compensation earned in one tax year to a future tax year. Only individuals who perform services for the entity, either as employees or independent contractors, may be participants in a section 457 plan. Independent contractors also receive Form 1099-MISC, but the reports are to be prepared in a slightly different manner as discussed later.