Form 5500 data on private pension plans

Statistical information on pension plans is available. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has released its findings from the Form 5500 series reports for the 2015 plan year. The new publication provides a statistical summary, in a series of tables, of the Form 5500 data on private pension plans, including plan counts, participant counts, and financial totals (including assets by category, contributions and benefits). In 2015, pension plans disbursed $686.4 billion for the payment of benefits. http://bit.ly/2HFb9jZ