This section serves as a centralized resource for the full range of multiemployer notices, filings, and applications that multiemployer pension plans are required to submit to PBGC. Here you will find materials associated with both recurring obligations—such as premium filings and Special Financial Assistance compliance reporting—and event-driven submissions, including notices of insolvency, plan terminations, mergers, transfers of assets and liabilities, and requests for traditional financial assistance. Each link on this page directs users to detailed instructions, regulatory guidance, required forms, and related resources needed to complete and submit these filings accurately.
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Pension plan administrators are required to send annual funding notices to keep pension plan participants and beneficiaries informed about the financial status of their pension plans.
A multiemployer plan that is or will be in endangered or critical status must notify PBGC not later than 30 days after the date of the annual certification.
Notices regarding plans not electing critical status and exemption for certain endangered plans.
Multiemployer plans may have additional notification requirements or need to submit requests for PBGC’s approval/review of various transactions.
The goal of PBGC’s Missing Participants Program is to connect participants who were missing when their plan terminated and closed out with their retirement benefits.
Multiemployer plans pay a premium based on the number of participants covered by the plan. The rate is indexed for wage inflation.