Title 29 — Labor
Part 5 · Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program
§ 1133. Claims procedure
Statutory text
In accordance with regulations of the Secretary, every employee benefit plan shall—
provide adequate notice in writing to any participant or beneficiary whose claim for benefits under the plan has been denied, setting forth the specific reasons for such denial, written in a manner calculated to be understood by the participant, and
afford a reasonable opportunity to any participant whose claim for benefits has been denied for a full and fair review by the appropriate named fiduciary of the decision denying the claim.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–406 title I § 503 · 88 Stat. 829
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 1133
(Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 503, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 893.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–406, title I, § 503, Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 893.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 503. claims procedure In accordance with regulations of the Secretary, every 29 USC 1133. employee benefit plan shall— (1) provide adequate notice in writing to any participant or beneficiary whose claim for benefits under the plan has been denied, setting forth the specific reasons for such denial, written in a manner calculated to be understood by the participant, and (2) afford a reasonable opportunity to any participant whose claim for benefits has been denied for a full and fair review by the appropriate named fiduciary of the decision denying the claim.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Regulations
Secretary authorized, effective , to promulgate regulations wherever provisions of this subchapter call for the promulgation of regulations, see section 1031 of this title.