ERISA
U.S. federal law that sets core standards for private-sector retirement and benefit plans, including fiduciary, reporting, and funding rules.
Retirement-benefit regulation terms covering ERISA, pension protection, benefit guarantees, pension regulators, and benefit-plan disclosure rules.
Pension, Retirement, and Benefit Regulation is the regulation landing page for ERISA, PBGC, pension protection, pension regulators, benefit-plan disclosure, Social Security, and retirement-benefit statutes. It keeps related terms in one branch so readers can move from a broad compliance question to the article that owns the regulatory evidence.
Use this page when a pension or benefit rule changes plan funding, fiduciary duties, reporting, guarantees, or participant protection. Use the parent Regulation page when you need the broader regulation map. For an individual decision, confirm the rule source, jurisdiction, covered party, effective date, filing or record, and compliance consequence before relying on the term.
Use the table below to move from this landing page into the term page that best matches the regulatory evidence.
| Term | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) | Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) explains pension, benefit-plan, retirement, or guarantee rules that affect plan sponsors and participants. |
| Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) | Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) explains pension, benefit-plan, retirement, or guarantee rules that affect plan sponsors and participants. |
| Pension Protection Act | Pension Protection Act explains pension, benefit-plan, retirement, or guarantee rules that affect plan sponsors and participants. |
| Pensions Act 2014 | Pensions Act 2014 explains pension, benefit-plan, retirement, or guarantee rules that affect plan sponsors and participants. |
| Pensions Regulator | Pensions Regulator explains pension, benefit-plan, retirement, or guarantee rules that affect plan sponsors and participants. |
| Social Security Act | Social Security Act explains pension, benefit-plan, retirement, or guarantee rules that affect plan sponsors and participants. |
| Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act (WPPDA) | Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act (WPPDA) explains pension, benefit-plan, retirement, or guarantee rules that affect plan sponsors and participants. |
A defined-benefit plan may have PBGC-related protections, but coverage depends on plan type, limits, and failure conditions.
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U.S. federal law that sets core standards for private-sector retirement and benefit plans, including fiduciary, reporting, and funding rules.
U.S. government corporation that insures certain private defined-benefit pension promises when plans fail.
The Pension Protection Act is U.S. pension reform legislation affecting plan funding, disclosures, automatic enrollment, and retirement savings rules.
UK pension reform law that reshaped the state pension framework and changed how retirement entitlements are calculated.
UK supervisory body responsible for oversight of work-based pension schemes and employer pension duties.
U.S. federal law that created the Social Security system and became a core legal foundation for retirement, survivor, and disability benefits.
Earlier U.S. employee-benefits disclosure law that required reporting and transparency before ERISA became the dominant private-plan framework.