Employee Benefits Security Administration November 2022 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; Notice of Charter Renewal
Document Number: 2022-25548
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-23
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor
Exemption From Certain Prohibited Transaction Restrictions Involving the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pension Plan for Union-Represented Employees Located in Philadelphia, PA
Document Number: 2022-25378
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-22
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor
This document contains a notice of exemption issued by the Department of Labor (the Department) from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). This exemption permits the sale (the Sale) of certain illiquid private fund interests (the Interests) by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pension Plan for Union-Represented Employees (the Plan or the Applicant) to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation (the Foundation).
Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program
Document Number: 2022-24703
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2022-11-21
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor
This document contains an amended and restated Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFC Program or Program) under Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA) and a request for comment. The VFC Program is designed to encourage correction of fiduciary breaches by permitting persons to avoid potential Department of Labor (Department) civil enforcement actions and civil penalties if they voluntarily correct eligible transactions in a manner that meets the requirements of the Program. Based on its experience since the last revision of the Program in 2006, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has identified certain changes that will both simplify and expand the original VFC Program, thereby making the Program easier for, and more useful to, employers and others who wish to avail themselves of the relief provided by the Program. Specifically, the Program amendments add a self-correction feature, clarify some existing transactions eligible for correction under the Program, expand the scope of other transactions currently eligible for correction, and simplify certain administrative or procedural requirements for participation in and correction of transactions under the VFC Program.
Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 2002-51 To Permit Certain Transactions Identified in the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program
Document Number: 2022-24702
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2022-11-21
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor
This document gives notice of a proposed amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2002-51, an exemption for certain transactions identified in the Department's Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFC Program or VFCP). The VFC Program allows persons who may have engaged in a breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to correct the breach and avoid certain Department of Labor-initiated civil actions and assessment of civil penalties. PTE 2002-51 (the VFCP Class Exemption) is a related class exemption that provides an exemption from excise taxes imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for certain eligible transactions corrected pursuant to the VFC Program. This amendment to the VFCP Class Exemption is being proposed in connection with the Department's amendment and restatement of the VFC Program, published elsewhere in today's issue of the Federal Register (2022 Program Notice). If granted, the amendment to the VFCP Class Exemption would affect plans, participants and beneficiaries of such plans, and certain other persons engaging in such transactions.
Proposed Exemption for Certain Prohibited Transaction Restrictions Involving Citigroup, Inc. (Citigroup or the Applicant); Located in New York, New York
Document Number: 2022-25039
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-16
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor
This document provides notice of the pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of a proposed exemption extending the exemptive relief provided by PTE 2017-05 for an additional four (4) years. If this proposed exemption is granted, certain entities with specified relationships to Citigroup (hereinafter, the Citigroup Affiliated QPAMs and the Citigroup Related QPAMs, as defined in Sections I(f) and I(g), respectively) would not be precluded from relying on the exemptive relief provided by Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 84-14 (PTE 84-14 or the QPAM Exemption), notwithstanding the Conviction (defined in Section I(a)), during the Exemption Period (as defined in Section I(d)).
214th Meeting of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; Notice of Meeting
Document Number: 2022-24013
Type: Notice
Date: 2022-11-04
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor
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