DOL: Over $1.4B for Benefits Plan Participants Recovered in Fiscal 2022

Specifically, from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, the agency reported:

• 907 civil investigations closed, with 595 of these probes resulting in monetary results for plans or other corrective actions. The investigations led to 6,928 terminated vested participants in defined benefit plans collecting benefits of $542 million owed to them. This amount, Labor said, "represents a combination of the present values of lifetime annuity payments made to defined benefits plan participants and beneficiaries, or lump sum balance payments, plus interest distributions paid as either retroactive lump sums or included in actuarially adjusted future annuity amounts."
• $931 million recovered through EBSA's investigations;
• 164 investigations of crimes related to employee benefit plans, with 103 people indicted and guilty pleas from, or convictions of 86 individuals;
• $422.1 million in benefits recovered on behalf of workers and their families through informal resolution of individual complaints;
• $83.9 million recovered through the agency's Abandoned Plan Program; and
• $8 million recovered through its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program.