Department of Labor
The Department of Labor (DOL) fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.
DOL Form 5500
Plan administrators annually file this report containing information described in section 103 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
This website, founded by attorney Carol V. Calhoun of the Calhoun Law Group, P.C., provides the most up-to-date information on the laws that affect employee benefit plans.
Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA)
The Employee Benefits Security Administration protects the integrity of pensions, health plans, and other employee benefits for more than 150 million people. EBSA assists workers in getting the information they need to exercise their benefit rights, assists plan officials in understanding the requirements of the relevant statutes in order to meet their legal responsibilities, develops policies and regulations that encourage the growth of employment-based benefits, and deters and corrects violations of the relevant statutes through strong administrative, civil and criminal enforcement efforts to ensure workers receive promised benefits.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans.
The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II) required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health plans, and employers. This website provides links to all of the most up-to-date and useful information on HIPAA and all of its implications.
This is the Internal Revenue Service’s website for Tax Information for the Retirement Plans Community, which includes information on 401(k), disaster relief, increased cost of living, and more.
The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to being a leading objective and independent global source of employee benefits, compensation, and financial literacy education and information.