Information Letters

Requests for interpretations and other rulings under Title 1 of ERISA are handled by the Office of Regulations and Interpretations under the provisions established by ERISA Procedure 76-1. The office answers inquiries from individuals and organizations in the form of information letters, which call attention to well established principles or interpretations.

1991
Date Recipient Description of Request
Information Letter
1991-07-17

Mr . Kevin E . Davis
The Chapman Company, Investment Bankers
Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust Building
Suite 1010, Two Hopkins Plaza
Baltimore, MD 21201

Information letter regarding the application of the fiduciary responsibility provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to the proposed transmittal of a letter to money managers of pension plans encouraging them to consider using a minority-controlled securities firm which provides execution services for ERISA and non-ERISA pension plans.

1986
Date Recipient Description of Request
Information Letter
1986-03-13

Mr. John N. Erlenborn
Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson
1111 19th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

In your capacity as chairman of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, you have requested an opinion of the Department of Labor regarding the interplay between the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA and pension plan terminations.

1981
Date Recipient Description of Request
Information Letter
1981-01-23

Ms. LaDonna Wallace
President
Plain English, Inc.
2029 Century Park East, Suite 600
Los Angeles, California 90067

Information Letter on whether Title I of ERISA prohibits the use of a single document to serve as both a plan document and a summary plan description (SPD) or expressly requires that the SPD and plan document be two separate documents.