About EBSA

Our mission

The Employee Benefits Security Administration's mission is to ensure the security of the retirement, health, and other job-based benefits of America's workers and their families. We accomplish this mission by developing effective regulations, assisting and educating workers, plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and service providers, and vigorously enforcing the law.

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  Our agency

  EBSA commits to educating and assisting more than 153 million workers, retirees, and their families covered by the benefit plans we oversee. This includes overseeing more than 801,000 private retirement plans, 2.6 million health plans, and 514,000 other welfare benefit plans, which collectively hold about $13.6 trillion in assets. We also dedicate ourselves to serving plan sponsors and members of the employee benefits community.

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