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.