On the same day the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-03, EBSA also posted a companion “red flags” guidance document to assist plan sponsors in identifying mental health parity compliance issues (the “Guidance”), which we discussed here. The stated purpose of the Guidance is to provide
DOL Issues Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-01 Signaling a Major Shift in ERISA Enforcement Priorities: What Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Need to Know
On April 14, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-01 (FAB) which sets out four enforcement priorities and guiding principles that are designed to ensure that EBSA’s enforcement “is fair, even-handed, responsive, and focused” and its enforcement authority is used in a manner…
EBSA FY 2019 MHPAEA Enforcement
By Russell Hirschhorn & Kyle Hansen on
The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is charged with ensuring that plans comply with ERISA, including the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). EBSA recently released its MHPAEA report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. We provide below highlights from EBSA’s report and also note some comparisons to FY 2018.
In FY 2019, EBSA…