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41 Congressional Research Service reports and publications

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs): An Overview
2025-09-15 · Resources · IF13104 · HTML available · PDF available
Data on Private Sector Defined Benefit Plans, 2010-2022
2025-07-18 · Resources · IF13065 · HTML available · PDF available
PBGC and Its Single-Employer Insurance Program’s Surplus
2025-03-27 · Resources · IF12951 · HTML available · PDF available
Types of Private Sector Defined Contribution Plans
2024-12-04 · Resources · IF12839 · HTML available · PDF available
Pensions and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): Investment Issues
2024-11-04 · Reports · R47996 · HTML available · PDF available
Worker Participation in Employer-Sponsored Pensions: Data in Brief and Recent Trends
2024-09-18 · Reports · R43439 · HTML available · PDF available
Defined Contribution Retirement Plans: Automatic Enrollment
2024-09-05 · Resources · IF12756 · HTML available · PDF available
The Department of Labor’s 2024 Final Rule on Investment Advice in Private Sector Pension Plans and Individual Retirement Accounts
2024-06-18 · Reports · R48108 · HTML available · PDF available
Contributions to Defined Contribution Retirement Plans
2024-06-11 · Reports · R48091 · HTML available · PDF available
Contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): Fact Sheet
2024-04-25 · Reports · R48051 · HTML available · PDF available
The Department of Labor’s Proposed Rule on Investment Advice in Private Sector Pension Plans and Individual Retirement Accounts
2024-04-23 · Reports · R48045 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. Retirement Assets: Data in Brief
2023-09-20 · Reports · R47699 · HTML available · PDF available
Conflict of Interest in Investment Advice Within Retirement Plans: An Overview
2023-09-15 · Resources · IF12492 · HTML available · PDF available
Single-Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Funding Relief and Modifications to Funding Rules
2023-05-18 · Reports · R46366 · HTML available · PDF available
Data in Brief: Funding Status of Multiemployer Defined Benefit Pension Plans
2023-04-26 · Reports · R47512 · HTML available · PDF available
Department of Labor Guidance and Regulations on Selecting Private-Sector Pension Plan Investments
2023-03-27 · Resources · IF12328 · HTML available · PDF available
Department of Labor Guidance and Regulations on the Exercise of Shareholder Rights by Private-Sector Pension Plans
2023-03-27 · Resources · IF12362 · HTML available
Capital Markets: Overview and Selected Policy Issues in the 118th Congress
2023-03-09 · Reports · R47431 · HTML available · PDF available
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC): A Primer
2023-02-07 · Reports · 95-118 · HTML available · PDF available
An Overview of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
2023-02-07 · Resources · IF10492 · HTML available · PDF available
Benefit Reductions to Participants in Delphi Pension Plans
2022-12-22 · Resources · IF12171 · HTML available · PDF available
Cryptocurrency in 401(k) Retirement Plans
2022-07-01 · Resources · IF12153 · HTML available · PDF available
Private-Sector Defined Contribution Pension Plans: An Introduction
2022-06-08 · Reports · R47152 · HTML available · PDF available
Pensions and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): An Overview
2022-06-01 · Reports · R47119 · HTML available · PDF available
U.S. Retirement Assets: Amount in Pensions and IRAs
2022-05-23 · Resources · IF12117 · HTML available · PDF available
A Visual Depiction of the Shift from Defined Benefit (DB) to Defined Contribution (DC) Pension Plans in the Private Sector
2021-12-27 · Resources · IF12007 · HTML available · PDF available
Private-Sector Pensions in 2019: Number of Plans, Participants, and Amount of Assets
2021-12-27 · Resources · IF12008 · HTML available · PDF available
Multiemployer Defined Benefit Pension Plans Potentially Eligible for Special Financial Assistance Under the American Rescue Plan Act
2021-05-28 · Reports · R46803 · HTML available · PDF available
Pension Provisions in the American Rescue Plan of 2021
2021-03-18 · Resources · IF11766 · HTML available · PDF available
Special Financial Assistance to Multiemployer Plans
2021-03-18 · Resources · IF11765 · HTML available
Potential Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Income Security of Older Americans
2020-11-24 · Reports · R46617 · HTML available · PDF available
Policy Options for Multiemployer Defined Benefit Pension Plans
2020-10-14 · Reports · R45311 · HTML available · PDF available
Proposed Multiemployer Composite Plans: Background and Analysis
2020-07-07 · Reports · R44722 · HTML available · PDF available
Data on Multiemployer Defined Benefit (DB) Pension Plans
2020-05-22 · Reports · R45187 · HTML available · PDF available
Multiemployer Defined Benefit (DB) Pension Plans: A Primer
2020-04-03 · Reports · R43305 · HTML available · PDF available
Retirement and Pension Provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)
2020-04-01 · Resources · IF11482 · HTML available · PDF available
Health and Pension Benefits for United Mine Workers of America Retirees: Recent Legislation
2019-11-20 · Resources · IF11370 · HTML available · PDF available
H.R. 397 (116th Congress), the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act
2019-07-19 · Resources · IF11144 · HTML available · PDF available
DOL’s 2016 Fiduciary Rule on Investment Advice
2017-07-05 · Resources · IF10686 · HTML available
Pension Benefits for United Mine Workers of America Retirees
2017-03-15 · Resources · IF10617 · HTML available · PDF available
Health Benefits for United Mine Workers of America Retirees
2017-03-15 · Resources · IF10616 · HTML available