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Know Your Health Benefit Rights
Learn how the law protects your health benefits and how certain life events can affect your rights.
Saving Matters
Learn about the laws that protect you and discover tips for protecting your long-term financial health.
Forms and filing instructions
Learn how to correctly file federal forms, including Form 5500 and Form M-1.
Compliance Assistance Releases
We can help employers comply with federal laws that cover job-based benefit plans.
Reports
Read detailed reports about employee benefits issues from the ERISA Advisory Council.
Research
Research papers
Read EBSA's research papers on various retirement topics, including mutual funds, Social Security, and pensions.
Research bulletins
These annual publications summarize data on private pension plans and group health plans.
Legal resources
Advisory opinions
Read through years of advisory opinions; like information letters, they are resources that apply the law, emphasize established principles, and address specific interpretation requests.
Funding status notices
If a multiemployer pension plan is deemed critical or endangered under Federal law, it must notify participants, beneficiaries, bargaining parties, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the Department of Labor.
Information letters
The Office of Regulations and Interpretations handles requests for interpretations and other rulings under Title 1 of ERISA. The office answers inquiries from individuals and organizations. These information letters are the office's answers to those requests.
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