A bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to clarify the requirement that summary descriptions of plan provisions required to be provided to plan participants and beneficiaries be sufficiently accurate and comprehensive to reasonably apprise them of their rights and obligations under the plan and to improve civil enforcement of such requirement.

Summary

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that updated summary plan descriptions of any employee benefit plan be furnished to plan participants and beneficiaries. States that the summary plan description requirement may not be met solely with statements directing the reader to consult the text of an employee benefit plan. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to assess civil penalties against a plan which violates such requirement. Prescribes procedures for the submission and investigation of complaints which allege violations of the summary plan description requirement.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 27 February 1984

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