The Labor Department agency charged with regulating employee benefits plans announced Tuesday the return of $3.124 billion to participants in fiscal 2020 from investigations and other compliance programs.
DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration closed 1,122 civil investigations in fiscal 2020, resulting in $2.6 billion in recovered funds. Informal complaint resolutions and voluntary correction programs made up the remainder of the total.
The annual total is the highest of the Trump administration, which recovered $1.1 billion in fiscal 2017, $1.6 billion in fiscal 2018, and $2.57 billion in fiscal 2019.
EBSA’s oversight authority extends to nearly 722,000 retirement plans, about 2.5 ...