• Filing A Claim For Your Health Or Disability Benefits
• How to Obtain Employee Benefit Documents from DOL
• Can the Retiree Health Benefits Provided by Your Employer Be Cut?
• Job Loss - Important Information Workers Need To Know To Protect Their Health Coverage and Retirement Benefits
• Life Changes Require Health Choices...Know Your Benefit Options
• MEWAs: A Guide to Federal and State Regulation
• Protecting Retirement and Health Care Benefits after Job Loss
• Protections For Newborns, Adopted Children, And New Parents - The Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996
• Retirement and Health Care Benefits...Questions and Answers for Reservists
• Retirement and Health Care Coverage...Questions and Answers for Dislocated Workers
• Top 10 Ways to Make Your Health Benefits Work for You
• Work Changes Require Health Choices...Protect Your Rights
• Your Health Plan And HIPAA...Making The Law Work For You
• Your Rights After A Mastectomy...Women's Health & Cancer Rights Act of 1998

Retirement

• A Look at 401(k) Plan Fees
• Cash Balance Plans: Questions and Answers
• Filing A Claim for Your Retirement Benefits
• How to Obtain Employee Benefit Documents from the Department of Labor
• Job Loss - Important Information Workers Need To Know To Protect Their Health Coverage and Retirement Benefits
• New Employee Savings Tips - Time Is On Your Side
• Payroll Deduction IRAs For Small Businesses
• Protecting Retirement and Health Care Benefits after Job Loss
• Profit Sharing Plans for Small Businesses
• QDROs - Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
• Retirement and Health Care Benefits...Questions and Answers for Reservists
• Retirement and Health Care Coverage...Questions and Answers for Dislocated Workers
• Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future
• SEP Retirement Plans for Small Businesses
• SIMPLE IRA Plans for Small Businesses
• Taking The Mystery Out Of Retirement Planning
• Target Date Retirement Funds Investor Bulletin
• Top 10 Ways to Prepare for Retirement
• What You Should Know About Your Retirement Plan
• Women and Retirement Savings
• Your Employer's Bankruptcy: How Will it Affect Your Employee Benefits?

Compliance Assistance Publications

Health

• An Employer's Guide to Health Continuation Coverage Under COBRA - The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
• Compliance Assistance Guide - Health Benefits Coverage Under Federal Law
• Compliance Assistance - Group Health and Disability Plans Benefit Claims Procedure Regulation
• Getting Ready for Changes in Filing Your Plan's Annual Return/Report Form 5500
• How to Obtain Employee Benefit Documents from the Department of Labor
• In Brief: Can the Retiree Health Benefits Provided by Your Employer Be Cut?
• MEWAs: A Guide to Federal and State Regulation
• Qualified Medical Child Support Orders
• Reporting And Disclosure Guide For Employee Benefit Plans
• Understanding Your Fiduciary Responsibilities Under A Group Health Plan

Retirement

• 401(k) Plans For Small Businesses
• 401(k) Plan Fees Disclosure Form
• Adding Automatic Enrollment To Your 401(k) Plan
• Automatic Enrollment 401(k) Plans for Small Businesses
• Choosing a Retirement Solution for Your Small Business
• Exemption Procedures Under Federal Pension Law
• Getting Ready for Changes in Filing Your Plan's Annual Return/Report Form 5500
• How to Obtain Employee Benefit Documents from the Department of Labor
• Meeting Your Fiduciary Responsibilities
• Payroll Deduction IRAs For Small Businesses
• Profit Sharing Plans for Small Businesses
• QDROs: Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
• Reporting And Disclosure Guide For Employee Benefit Plans
• SEP Retirement Plans for Small Businesses
• Selecting An Auditor For Your Employee Benefit Plan
• SIMPLE IRA Plans for Small Businesses
• Special Terminal Report Instructions for Abandoned Plans
• Understanding Retirement Plan Fees And Expenses

Filing Requirements

• Frequently Asked Questions about the ERISA Filing Acceptance System (EFAST)
• Getting Ready for Changes in Filing Your Plan's Annual Return/Report Form 5500

Publicaciones Del Consumidor En Español

• Cómo Presentar Una Reclamación Por Sus Beneficios de Jubilación
• Cobertura de Jubilación y Atención de Salud...Preguntas y Respuestas para Trabajadores Desplazados
• Cómo Presentar Una Reclamación Para Sus Beneficios de Salud o Incapacidad
• Cómo proteger la jubilación y los beneficios de salud después de perder el empleo
• Cómo resolver el misterio de la planificación de su jubilación
• Las 10 Mejores Maneras de Prepararse para la Jubilación
• Las 10 Mejores Maneras de hacer que sus beneficios de salud funcionen para usted
• Las Mujeres Y El Ahorro Para La Jubilación
• Lo Que Usted Debe Saber...Sobre Su Plan De Retiro
• Los cambios de condición laboral requieren hacer elecciones médicas
• Los cambios de vida requieren tomar decisiones médicas
• Su Dinero Y Futuro Economico: Una Guia Para Ahorrar
• Su Plan de Salud y la Ley HIPAA… Utilizando la Ley a su Favor
• Sus Derechos Despues De Una Mastectomia
• Una guía para el empleado sobre los beneficios de salud bajo COBRA - La Ley Ómnibus Consolidada de Reconciliación Presupuestaria

Publicaciones Del Empleador En Español

• Cumplimiento De Sus Responsabilidades Fiduciarias
• Modelo De Aviso General Sobre Los Derechos A La Continuación De La Cobertura De COBRA
• Modelo De Aviso De Elección De La Continuación De La Cobertura De COBRA
• Una guía para el empleador sobre la continuación de cobertura de salud grupal bajo COBRA - La Ley Ómnibus Consolidada de Reconciliación Presupuestaria

Health And Pension Reports

• Health Disclosure and Claims Issues: Fiscal Year 2001 Compliance Project Report
• National Summit on Retirement Savings - Final Report: 2006 • 2002 • 1998

Funded Research Papers

• Health Research Papers: 2000-2006
• Pension Research Papers: 2000-2005
• Study of 401(k) Plan Fees and Expenses
• Private Pension Plan Bulletins Abstract of Form 5500 Annual Reports:
  2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 • 2000 • 1999 • 1998 • 1997 • 1996 • 1995 • 1994 • 1993
• Private Pension Plan Bulletin Historical Tables and Graphs: 1975-2007

ERISA Advisory Council Reports

2009

• Approaches to Retirement Security in the United States
• Promoting Retirement Literacy and Security by Streamlining Disclosures to Participants and Beneficiaries
• Stable Value Funds and Retirement Security in the Current Economic Conditions

2008

• Hard to Value Assets and Target Date Funds
• Phased Retirement
• The Spend Down of Defined Contribution Assets at Retirement

2007

• Financial Literacy of Plan Participants and the Role of the Employer
• Fiduciary Responsibilities and Revenue Sharing Practices
• Participant Benefit Statements

2006

• Health Information Technology
• Plan Asset Rules, Exemptions And Cross-Trading
• Prudent Investment Process

2005

• Communications To Retirement Plan Participants
• Health And Welfare Benefit Plans' Communications
• Retirement Distributions And Options

2004

• Fee And Related Disclosures To Participants
• Health And Welfare Form 5500 Requirements
• Plan Fees And Reporting On Form 5500

2003

• Defined Benefit Plan Funding And Discount Rate Issues
• Health Care Security Consumer-Directed Health Care Arrangements
• Optional Professional Management In Defined Contribution Plans

2002

• Electronic Reporting
• Fiduciary Education and Training
• Orphan Plans

2001

• Challenges to the Employment-Based Healthcare System
• Increasing Pension Coverage, Participation and Benefits
• Planning For Retirement

2000

• Benefit Continuity After Organizational Restructuring
• Long-Term Care
• Phased Retirement

1999

• Benefit Implications of the Growth of a Contingent Workforce
• Studying the Trend in the Defined Benefit Market to Hybrid Plans
• Using Surplus Pension Assets to Secure Retiree Health Benefits

1998

• Disclosure of Health Plan Quality Information
• Retirement Plan Leakage
• Small Business

1997

• Defined Contribution vs. Defined Benefit Plans
• Employer Assets in ERISA Employer-Sponsored Plans
• Soft Dollars/Commission Recapture

1996

• Utilization of Third-Party Trustees to Protect Plan Participants
• Guidance in Selecting and Monitoring Service Providers
• Impact of Alternative Tax Proposals on ERISA Employer-Sponsored Plans

• Organization Chart
• EBSA Regional Offices
• ERISA Advisory Council
• CHIP Working Group

• Health Plans
• Retirement Plans
• Retirement Savings

• Final Rules
• FR Notices
• Proposed Rules
• Public Comments

• Advisory Opinions
• Exemptions
• Field Assistance Bulletins
• Information Letters
• Interpretive Bulletins
• EO 12866 Guidance

• Abandoned Plans
• Correction Programs
• Fiduciary Education
• For Health Plans
• For Retirement Plans
• For Small Employers
• Reporting and Filing
• 403(b) Plans
• Webcasts