Employee Benefits Security Administration
Active
- Assistance listing
- 17.150
- Agency
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Employee Benefits Security Administration
Department of Labor
- Grant awards
- Not on record
Program facts
- Also known as
- (EBSA)
- Treasury account
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- 16-1700-0-1-601
- More information
Program details come from SAM.gov Assistance Listings. Updated .
About this program
The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) administers CFDA 17.150, a compliance assistance and information program that supports plan administrators, trustees, participants, beneficiaries, and service providers in understanding and complying with Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
EBSA's direct assistance activities center on raising knowledge levels among plan participants, beneficiaries, plan sponsors, service providers, and other stakeholders regarding ERISA requirements for employee retirement, health, and welfare benefit plans. The program provides access to plan documents filed with the Department of Labor, publishes free compliance guidance and educational materials directed at employers and participants, and operates a hotline (1-866-444-EBSA) to field inquiries on plan administration and participant rights. Assistance enables participants to understand and exercise their legal rights under ERISA and to recover benefits to which they may be entitled, while allowing plan administrators and practitioners to better understand regulatory obligations.
The source does not report recent grant awards, grant award history, assistance-type distribution, funding concentration among multiple agencies, aggregate federal dollar obligations, or typical award magnitudes. This program does not appear to operate through a competitive project-grant or cooperative-agreement funding model. Instead, EBSA delivers assistance through direct administration—published materials, hotline support, and field-office consultation—rather than through grants to external recipients. The Catalog note that this program is excluded from coverage under 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards) reinforces that it does not function as a traditional federal grant program distributing funds to eligible applicants.
Prospective applicants should contact EBSA's nearest field office, visit www.dol.gov/ebsa, or call the hotline to clarify whether this Assistance Listing supports grant funding for specific activities or functions exclusively as a direct information and compliance assistance service.
Objective and description
- Objective
The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of the civil and criminal provisions of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) as well as related provisions of
- Description
EBSA's goal in providing direct assistance is to raise the knowledge level of plan participants and beneficiaries, plan sponsors, service providers and other interested parties and to ensure that they have access to available plan documents filed with the Department of Labor.
Eligibility
- Applicant eligibility
Plan administrators, trustees, participants, beneficiaries of employee benefit plans, or others involved in plan administration may obtain assistance in complying with the Act. Interested persons may obtain certain plan documents which are required to be filed by plan administrators.
- Beneficiary eligibility
Plan officials, trustees, participants, beneficiaries of employee benefit plans, or others involved in plan administration.
- Uses of assistance
EBSA's compliance assistance program provides information to assist plan participants including, beneficiaries, sponsors, service providers and other interested parties in understanding and complying with the requirements of ERISA as it applies to the administration of employee retirement, health and other welfare benefit plans. This enables participants to better understand and exercise their rights under the law and, when possible, to recover any benefits to which they may be entitled. This also allows plan administrators and practitioners the opportunity to better understand and comply with the law.
How to apply
- Application procedure
This program is excluded from coverage under 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. Contact the nearest field office of the Employee Benefits Security Administration listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog, EBSA's web site at www.dol.gov/ebsa or EBSA's hotline at (1 866) 444-EBSA (3272). (Participants and beneficiaries should first contact their plan administrator for plan information.)
Quick answers
What is Assistance Listing 17.150?
Assistance Listing 17.150 is Employee Benefits Security Administration, a federal grant program run by Employee Benefits Security Administration (Department of Labor).
What is the CFDA number for Employee Benefits Security Administration?
Its CFDA number is 17.150: Assistance Listing numbers were called CFDA numbers before 2018.
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