DOL, IRS and PBGC Release Information for 2025 Annual Benefits Plan Report/Return Filings

Subscribe (Free) to
Daily or Weekly Newsletters

Post a Job

Featured Jobs

3(16) Retirement Plan & Customer Liaison

Compass
(Remote / Stratham NH / Hybrid)

Participant Services & Operations Coordinator

Pentegra
(Remote)

Senior Plan Administrator

Merkley Retirement Consultants
(Remote)

Staff Accountant 2

BPAS
(Huntingdon Valley PA / Hybrid)

Retirement Plan Termination Specialist

Compass
(Remote / Stratham NH / Hybrid)

Retirement Plan Administrator (Part-Time)

Accelefund, Inc.
(Remote / Lenexa KS)

Regional Sales Consultant

The Pension Source
(AL / AR / GA / KY / MS / TN / TX)

Plan Administrator

DWC ERISA Consultants LLC
(Remote)

Defined Benefit Specialist II or III

Nova 401(k) Associates
(Remote)

View More Employee Benefits Jobs

Free Newsletters

“BenefitsLink continues to be the most valuable resource we have at the firm.”

-- An attorney subscriber

DOL, IRS and PBGC Release Information for 2025 Annual Benefits Plan Report/Return Filings
Employee Benefits Security Administration [EBSA], U.S. Department of Labor [DOL]

[Guidance Overview]
Dec. 15, 2025

"Each form's instructions include a Changes to Note section highlighting important updates to the forms, and schedules and instructions for 2025 including the following changes in Form 5500 and Form 5500-SF:

New plan characteristic codes, 1J, 1K, and 1L added to Form 5500 for use in identifying multiemployer defined benefit plans terminated as a result of mass withdrawal, plan amendment or insolvency.
New plan characteristic code, 1G, added for use on both forms to identify defined benefit plans that use a variable annuity benefit formula.
Existing plan characteristic code 1H modified on Form 5500 to clarify that it applies only to terminated single-employer PBGC-covered plans.

Plan administrators should not use informational copies to file a 2025 Form 5500 Series Annual Return/Report." MORE >>

Please click here to report this link if it is broken (for example, if you see a "404 File Not Found" error message after you click on the linked news item's title).

An important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® created this link to the news item, but we are not the news item's author (unless expressly shown above).