29 CFR Part 4071

Part 4071—Penalties for Failure to Provide Certain Notices or Other Material Information

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29 CFR Part 4071

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29 CFR Part 4071

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PART 4071—PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO PROVIDE CERTAIN NOTICES OR OTHER MATERIAL INFORMATION

Authority:

28 U.S.C. 2461 note, as amended by sec. 701, Pub. L. 114-74, 129 Stat. 599-601; 29 U.S.C. 1302(b)(3), 1371.

Source:

62 FR 36994, July 10, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

§ 4071.1 Purpose and scope.

This part specifies the maximum daily amount of penalties that may be assessed by the PBGC under ERISA section 4071 for certain failures to provide notices or other material information, as such amount has been adjusted to account for inflation pursuant to the Federal Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996.

§ 4071.2 Definitions.

The following terms are defined in § 4001.2 of this chapter: ERISA and PBGC.

§ 4071.3 Penalty amount.

The maximum daily amount of the penalty under section 4071 of ERISA shall be $2,739.

[62 FR 36994, July 10, 1997, as amended at 81 FR 29766, May 13, 2016; 82 FR 8814, Jan. 31, 2017; 83 FR 1556, Jan. 12, 2018; 83 FR 67074, Dec. 28, 2018; 85 FR 2305, Jan. 15, 2020; 86 FR 2542, Jan. 13, 2021; 87 FR 2341, Jan. 14, 2022; 88 FR 1992, Jan. 12, 2023; 89 FR 2133, Jan. 12, 2024; 90 FR 1374, Jan. 8, 2025]