Guidance Document Database

Provides guidelines for changes to certain assumptions that multiemployer plans may use for purposes of determining eligibility for special financial assistance (SFA) and the amount of SFA.

Provides information on filing a standard termination, distribution of benefits, and standard termination audits

Discusses how the PBGC's maximum guarantee limit works under the multiemployer insurance program and explains an increase in maximum guarantee limit for participants in multiemployer plans.

Guidance on determining the present value of the maximum benefit guaranteed by PBGC.

Provides simplified methods for the application of the statutory requirement that multiemployer plans in critical status disregard certain benefit reductions in determining the plan's unfunded vested benefits for purposes of determining an employer's withdrawal liability under section 4201 of ERISA.

Clarifies the Line 14 Instructions for the Schedule R (Form 5500) and provides partial reporting relief for completing Line 14 for the 2009 plan year.

Expands on guidance in Technical Update 07-3 on lump sum valuation issues for single-employer plans that terminate in a standard termination. Applies to plans that terminate on or after the effective date of certain amendments to the law as enacted by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA 2006) concerning how to apply the PPA 2006 changes in the interest rate and mortality table used in calculating minimum lump sum amounts.

Guidance on lump sum valuation issues for single-employer plans that terminate in a standard termination with a termination date prior to, and a final distribution date on or after, the effective date of changes in the interest rate and mortality table used in calculating minimum lump sum values under the Pension Protection Act.

Provides relief from certain premium penalties and in certain situations involving alternative premium funding target elections.

Provides information about PBGC’s review of corporate transactions or events that may pose an increased risk to single-employer pension plans.

Answers common questions on liability and notice requirements following a substantial cessation of operations.

General information on submitting domestic relations orders to PBGC after PBGC becomes trustee of a terminated pension plan and the procedures PBGC follows to determine whether an order is a qualified domestic relations order

PBGC’s Freedom of Information Act Guide

Describes PBGC’s revised policy on assessing penalties for failing to timely provide required information to PBGC.

Provides guidance on the bonding and escrow requirements imposed on employers that sell their assets.

Clarifies that any multiemployer plan that is not amended to adopt a non-presumptive allocation method is required to allocate unfunded vested benefits using the presumptive method.

Describes the penalty for failing to timely provide required premium related information to PBGC.

Plan does not meet Title IV coverage exemption since activities covered by the plan were off-reservation commercial activities carried on for profit.

Title IV does not cover deposits made into a Keogh Trust.

Addresses a plan’s notice of intent to terminate, date of plan termination, and the ability to terminate the plan by agreement.

Addresses whether the rule against transactions with a principal purpose to avoid withdrawal liability can apply when a transaction meets the sale of assets exception requirements.

Individual account plan is exempt from coverage under Title IV.

Defined benefit plan was not terminated before enactment of ERISA and is covered by Title IV.