PBGC Seeks Approval to Keep Tracking Business Shutdown Notices
Published Date: 4/8/2025
Notice
Summary
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) wants to keep collecting important info from companies when they stop working at a facility. This helps make sure everyone follows the rules and keeps things running smoothly. If you’re involved in these reports, get ready for the extension—no new costs or big changes, just keeping the system going strong!
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
PBGC Keeps Post‑Closure Reporting
If you are a company that must report to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation after stopping operations at a facility, PBGC plans to ask the Office of Management and Budget to extend approval for that information collection so you must keep filing those reports. PBGC is soliciting public comment on that extension. The notice indicates this is an extension of the existing collection and does not announce new changes.
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