Get your Ducks in a Row 58 Questions from the Department of Labor

A Multnomah Group White Paper

The Department of Labor has the difficult job of administering and enforcing Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Title I establishes the standards for governing the operation of employee benefit plans. One of the mechanisms they use in meeting their objectives are audits of retirement plan sponsors. These audits provide the Department a wide variety of data to analyze, but also provide plan sponsors insight into the issues that the Department is most interested in evaluating.

Audits typically arise as a result in one of three ways.