BenefitsLink is an excellent site with links to just about everything of interest to the employee benefits and pension community. Highly recommended!  If you're looking for a job in employee benefits, or have an open position to advertise, we also highly recommend EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com, which is operated by BenefitsLink. 

FreeERISA.com provides a wealth of ERISA plan information from looking up EINs to viewing 5500 filings.

The Pension Inspector is an excellent site for ERISA Data Mining. Included in the online ERISA PLUS DASHBOARD screen are up to 14 year complete Retirement and Welfare Form 5500 downloads, Key Summary 5 Year Reports, Investment, Expense Performance Rankings, and Alerts for each Plan Year, plus, Plan and Sponsor Litigation results and much more. A CPA ERISA Plan Audit Worksheet and Verification Report is available.  (Free and subscription-based services)

The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) web site contains information about the organizations conferences, educational services, and other activities.

Employee Benefits Institute of America (EBIA) is widely considered the authority for Fringe and Welfare plan information.  In addition to a free weekly newsletter, EBIA also offers subscriptions to a series of (really thick) manuals as well as seminars conducted throughout the country.  Highly recommended.

Looking for information about the Society of Actuaries? In addition to information about the organization, this site also hosts on-line discussion forums.

The National Institute of Pension Administrator, NIPA, also has a web site. For those in the Chicagoland area, also visit the NIPA Great Lakes Study Group web site.

SHRM Online operated by the Society of Human Resource Professionals contains news and information of interest to HR professionals including the Society's HR Magazine and HR News. Also has some very good links.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute web site contains information about the non-profit organization's services and activities as well as a number of links to other resources.

Need 30-year Treasury Rates, Composite Corporate Bond Rates, or PBGC Rates, or other IRS & PBGC rates and limits? Visit our Rates page

FedWorld is the US Government's on-ramp to virtually all of the federal government on-line resources. A good place to start.

An even better place to start is the new FirstGov web site that allows you to locate information across all of the US Government's web sites. 

IRS Forms is where to find downloadable and printable IRS tax forms. Adobe Acrobat, HP LaserJet, and Postscript formats are available. Or, if you're just looking for general IRS information, check out the IRS Home Page. For the IRS Employee Plans home page, click here.

Internal Revenue Bulletins since 1995 can be found in Adobe Acrobat format at the IRS Web Site.

ERISA Law & Regs and PBGC Regs contain hypertext versions of PBGC and ERISA regulations. US Tax Code contains the full text of the US Code in a searchable format.

Looking for information about the US Department of Labor? Here's where to find it!  The DOL also has a site for the EFAST (5500) program. To go directly to the EBSA web site, click here.

SSA Online is the Social Security Administration home page.  COLA information is also available at their site.

Let's not forget the PBGC. They have joined the cyberspace revolution too

Coming to the Chicago area for one of our seminars? There's a lot to see and do. Just check out the City of Chicago's Home Page and see! Or, maybe you'd like to know what the weather is like here at DATAIR.

Stop email virus hoaxes!  Did you receive an email message warning of doom and urging you to forward it to everyone in your address book?  Check out one or more of the following computer virus hoax resource sites before clicking "Forward"...

• Snopes:  http://snopes.com
• Symantec:  http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html 

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