Employee Benefits Security Administration

Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today released Field Assistance Bulletin 2007-03, which provides guidance to EBSA’s national and regional offices relating to the timeframe for furnishing pension benefit statements by certain individual account plans.

October 12, 2007

U.S. Labor Department sues former officer of Detroit business to restore funds to pension and profit-sharing plans

Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.

October 11, 2007

U.S. Labor Department obtains court order restoring assets to former Portland, Oregon retirement plan

Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.

Portland, Oregon – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order and judgment restoring more than $19,000 to the retirement plan of defunct Rundel Products, Inc. in Portland.

October 10, 2007

U. S. Labor Department releases advance copies of 2007 Form 5500 Annual Report

Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.

October 10, 2007

U.S. Labor Department offers online calculator to help employers and benefit plan administrators compute penalties, file overdue reports

Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.

October 10, 2007

U.S. Labor Department obtains settlement to distribute 401(k) funds to former employees of Kropf Orchards and Appletree Farms

Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.

U.S. Labor Department testifies before House Ways and Means Committee on 401(k) fee disclosure

U.S. Labor Department obtains restitution for pension plans of defunct Tennessee company

U.S. Labor Department testifies before Senate Special Committee on Aging on 401(k) fee disclosure

U.S. Department of Labor announces final rule on default investment alternatives for participant-directed plans

U.S. Department of Labor sues defunct Edgewood, Maryland company to protect pension plan participants

U.S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council to hold November 2007 meetings

U.S. Labor Department obtains appointment of independent fiduciary for abandoned 401(k) plan of Nashua, New Hampshire company

U.S. Labor Department sues to compel trustees to manage abandoned Warren, Rhode Island 401(k) plan

Connecticut employee benefit plan administrator and officers agree to distribute more than $337,000 to health plan clients to resolve U.S. Labor Department lawsuit

U.S. Labor Department sues former officer of Detroit business to restore funds to pension and profit-sharing plans

U.S. Labor Department action clears way to distribute $60,000 in 401(k) assets to former employees of defunct Fremont, California hi-tech company