[Official Guidance]

12/1/2006: Text of Model Notice to Participants and Others of Pending Election of Multiemployer Plan Status (PDF) (Employee Benefits Security Administration [EBSA], U.S. Department of Labor [DOL])

Excerpt: This notice is to inform you that [insert pension plan name] ... will be submitting to the [PBGC] an election to be treated as a multiemployer pension plan for purposes of federal law.... A plan's status as a single-employer plan or a multiemployer plan determines how your pension benefits will be guaranteed by the PBGC ... should the plan terminate without enough money to pay pension benefits.