18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress
Reform multiemployer pensions to match single-employer protections
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“Congress should reform multiemployer pensions to give participants in these plans the same protections as those in single-employer plans. Liabilities should be measured similarly to single-employer plans. … Troubled plans should be prohibited from making new pension promises.”
What has happened
- Not started
Congress has not reformed multiemployer pensions to match single-employer protections. No bill of the 119th Congress measures multiemployer liabilities on the single-employer basis or bars troubled plans from making new pension promises; the only multiemployer bill of the Congress, S. 3615, the Multiemployer Plan Relief Act (referred to Finance on 2026-01-12), runs the other way, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Special Financial Assistance program — which pays troubled multiemployer plans rather than restraining them — continued, with technical amendments proposed on 2026-06-16.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- “Moved the other way” under §3b: the Status stays not started and the contrary action carries the Evidence. The Special Financial Assistance program is the opposite of the Quote’s “troubled plans should be prohibited from making new pension promises”.
- Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the pension asks.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Multiemployer pension plan rules
- ID
- 1681