EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY PROGRAM
Title 29 - Labor
Congressional findings and declaration of policy
Additional Congressional findings and declaration of policy
Findings and declaration of policy
Definitions
Coverage
Duty of disclosure and reporting
Summary plan description
Annual reports
Filing with Secretary and furnishing information to participants and certain employers
Reporting of participant’s benefit rights
Reports made public information
Retention of records
Reliance on administrative interpretations
Forms
Alternative methods of compliance
Eliminating unnecessary plan requirements related to unenrolled participants
Repeal and effective date
Notice and disclosure requirements with respect to lump sums
Minimum participation standards
Minimum vesting standards
Benefit accrual requirements
Requirement of joint and survivor annuity and preretirement survivor annuity
Form and payment of benefits
Mergers and consolidations of plans or transfers of plan assets
Recordkeeping and reporting requirements
Multiple employer plans and other special rules
Effective dates
Minimum funding standards
Minimum funding standards for single-employer defined benefit pension plans
Minimum funding standards for multiemployer plans
Additional funding rules for multiemployer plans in endangered status or critical status
Establishment of plan
Establishment of trust
Fiduciary duties
Liability for breach of co-fiduciary
Prohibited transactions
Limitation with respect to acquisition and holding of employer securities and employer real property by certain plans
Exemptions from prohibited transactions
Liability for breach of fiduciary duty
Exculpatory provisions; insurance
Persons prohibited from holding certain positions
Bonding
Limitation of actions
Effective date
Criminal penalties
Civil enforcement
Claims procedure
Investigative authority
Regulations
Coordination and responsibility of agencies enforcing this subchapter and related Federal laws
Administration
Appropriations
Separability
Interference with protected rights
Coercive interference
Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans
Research, studies, and reports
Studies by Comptroller General
Other laws
Clarification of church welfare plan status under State insurance law
Delinquent contributions
Outreach to promote retirement income savings
National Summit on Retirement Savings
Authority to postpone certain deadlines by reason of Presidentially declared disaster or terroristic or military actions
Prohibition on false statements and representations
Applicability of State law to combat fraud and abuse
Administrative summary cease and desist orders and summary seizure orders against multiple employer welfare arrangements in financially hazardous condition
Coordination of enforcement regarding violations of certain health care provider requirements; complaint process
Retirement Savings Lost and Found
Plans must provide continuation coverage to certain individuals
Continuation coverage
Qualifying event
Applicable premium
Election
Notice requirements
Definitions and special rules
Additional standards for group health plans
Pension-linked emergency savings accounts
Preemption of State anti-garnishment laws
Reporting and disclosure requirements
Report to Congress on emergency savings accounts
Procedures in connection with the issuance of certain determination letters by the Secretary of the Treasury covering qualifications under Internal Revenue Code
Procedures with respect to continued compliance with Internal Revenue requirements relating to participation, vesting, and funding standards
Employee plans compliance resolution system
Procedures in connection with prohibited transactions
Coordination between the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Labor
Establishment
Duties
Congressional study
Protection for employees under Federal procurement, construction, and research contracts and grants
Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
Enrollment by Board; standards and qualifications; suspension or termination of enrollment
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Operation of corporation
Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate
Sponsor education and assistance
Pension benefit guaranty funds
Premium rates
Payment of premiums
Annual report by the corporation
Portability assistance
Authority to require certain information
Single-employer plan benefits guaranteed
Multiemployer plan benefits guaranteed
Aggregate limit on benefits guaranteed; criteria applicable
Plan fiduciaries
Termination of single-employer plans
Termination of multiemployer plans
Institution of termination proceedings by the corporation
Reportable events
Allocation of assets
Recapture of payments
Reports to trustee
Restoration of plans
Termination date
Missing participants
Amounts payable by corporation
Liability for termination of single-employer plans under a distress termination or a termination by corporation
Liability of substantial employer for withdrawal from single-employer plans under multiple controlled groups
Liability on termination of single-employer plans under multiple controlled groups
Annual report of plan administrator
Annual notification to substantial employers
Recovery of liability for plan termination
Lien for liability
Treatment of transactions to evade liability; effect of corporate reorganization
Enforcement authority relating to terminations of single-employer plans
Penalty for failure to timely provide required information
Withdrawal liability established; criteria and definitions
Determination and collection of liability; notification of employer
Complete withdrawal
Sale of assets
Partial withdrawals
Adjustment for partial withdrawal; determination of amount; reduction for partial withdrawal liability; procedures applicable
Reduction or waiver of complete withdrawal liability; procedures and standards applicable
Reduction of partial withdrawal liability
De minimis rule
Nonapplicability of withdrawal liability for certain temporary contribution obligation periods; exception
Methods for computing withdrawal liability
Obligation to contribute
Actuarial assumptions
Application of plan amendments; exception
Plan notification to corporation of potentially significant withdrawals
Special rules for plans under
Application of part in case of certain pre-1980 withdrawals; adjustment of covered plan
Withdrawal not to occur because of change in business form or suspension of contributions during labor dispute
Notice, collection, etc., of withdrawal liability
Approval of amendments
Resolution of disputes
Reimbursements for uncollectible withdrawal liability
Withdrawal liability payment fund
Alternative method of withdrawal liability payments
Limitation on withdrawal liability
Mergers and transfers between multiemployer plans
Transfers between a multiemployer plan and a single-employer plan
Partitions of eligible multiemployer plans
Asset transfer rules
Transfers pursuant to change in bargaining representative
Insolvent plans
Assistance by corporation
Special financial assistance by the corporation
Benefits under certain terminated plans
Civil actions
Penalty for failure to provide notice
Election of plan status
Effective date; special rules