PBGC Must Receive Copies of All Multiemployer Plan Annual Funding Notices: Federal law requires all multiemployer defined benefit pension plans to provide an annual notice to participants, beneficiaries and other interested parties, including the PBGC, about the plans' funding status. On January 11, 2006, the U. S. Department of Labor published in the Federal Register its final regulation implementing the notice requirement of section 101(f) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, as amended. See the Department of Labor’s Web site at www.dol.gov/ebsa/regs/fedreg/final/2006000194.pdf for a description of the rules for this notice and copy of the model notice. For plans with calendar plan years, the first notice must be provided by September 30, 2006, unless the plan receives an extension to file the Form 5500. 

A copy of this Annual Funding Notice for a Multiemployer Defined Benefit Pension Plan must also be submitted to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Copies for the PBGC should be sent to:

PBGC
ATTN: Multiemployer Data Coordinator
1200 K Street NW., Suite 930
Washington, DC 20005-4026

PBGC will also accept an electronic copy e-mailed to Multiemployerprogram@PBGC.gov.

Partition application information received by the Multiemployer Data Coordinator: In the "Notice Concerning Application for Partition of the Chicago Truck Drivers, Helpers and Warehouse Workers Union (Independent) Pension Fund," which the Fund issued January 28, 2009, comments were to be directed within 30 days to the Multiemployer Data Coordinator. The Notice also stated that these comments will be available for public inspection at the PBGC, 1200 K Street, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20005, and on PBGC's website. To see the comments, please click here. Note that PBGC's Disclosure Division has redacted certain personal information and not included inquiries about how the proposed action affects any individual's benefits.