Welcome to the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans (NCCMP) website. NCCMP is an organization of national, regional and local multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans, International and Local Unions, national and local employer associations, individual local employers, and multiemployer fund professionals. Bookmark this page and make us your primary resource for information regarding multiemployer plans.

For more than 30 years, we've been representing the interests of multiemployer plan participants in the halls of Congress, in regulatory arenas, and in the courts.

We're protecting the financial security of our funds--and enhancing the benefits they provide--by holding down regulatory and administrative costs. We've already saved multiemployer plans billions of dollars by minimizing PBGC premiums, opposing inappropriate benefit mandates, and reducing administrative burdens.

We're maintaining the ability of multiemployer plans to establish and administer benefits in a free and flexible manner. We've prevented proposed regulations from interfering with our ability to design benefit programs that best meet the needs of multiemployer plan participants.

And, every day, we're working to defeat legislative and regulatory proposals that work against the best interests of our participants. We're fighting to stop proposals that would lead to the taxation of health benefits. And we're addressing the concerns of multiemployer plans in the debate over health care and retirement "reform" proposals.

HHS Publishes Final CO-OP Program Regulations
The Department of Health and Human Services has released final regulations on the establishment of the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program. Click here to read the regulations.

2010 NCCMP Multiemployer Pension Plan Funding Survey
Thank you to the many funds that participated in our 2010 survey update. The primary findings of the 2010 study are:

• On a PPA reporting basis, the average funded percentage of multiemployer plans covered by the study increased from 77% to 82%;
• Over 70% of responding plans adopted contribution increases to improve their funding levels, and over half of these plans simultaneously reduced benefit levels;
• Nearly 50% of responding plans are now in the "Green Zone", with a corresponding 20% reduction in "Red Zone" plans.

Click here to view/print the 2010 report. The 2010 study was an update to the historic 2009 NCCMP Survey of the Funded Status of Multiemployer Plans. Click here to view/print the 2009 report.

The results of our studies greatly enhance our efforts with legislators, Congressional staff members, and regulatory agencies. To assist us in this work, please consider participating in our 2011 survey. Click here to view/print the 2011 survey form in PDF. Click here to view/download the 2011 survey form in Excel spreadsheet format.

Treatment of Multiemployer Plans under the Affordable Care Act
Recognizing the critical importance of our health plans to multiemployer plan participants and their sponsors, the NCCMP has engaged in a dialogue with the Department of Health and Human Services to facilitate a better understanding of how multiemployer health and welfare plans can best interact and coexist with the health care exchanges. These efforts were supported by the capable offices of our outside tax counsel at the firm of Alston & Bird, LLP and consultants at the Segal Company, and those of several of our members and their counsel who provided significant insight and perspective to the problem. Specifically we would like to gratefully acknowledge the work of the United Food and Commercial Workers and their counsel, Slevin and Hart; UNITE HERE HEALTH and their counsel, Covington and Burling; and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, supported by RAK consulting, collectively, in pulling together this comprehensive submission.

The primary purpose of this dialogue has been to advance the legal and economic arguments supporting the conclusion that participants in multiemployer plans should be determined to be eligible for the premium tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The NCCMP has submitted two documents to HHS that provide both a legal framework as well as economic and public policy rationale for this conclusion. Rather than attempt a more expansive summary which would not do justice to its complexities, we urge you to review these documents to familiarize yourselves with this issue and the reasons why it is so important to the multiemployer community. It is clear that this will continue to be a significant issue for the foreseeable future.

Documents will be posted as this dialogue continues and expands to include other agencies with jurisdiction over specific aspects of this issue.

Click here to read the August 9, 2011 NCCMP memo to HHS regarding the treatment of multiemployer plans. Click here to read the August 30, 2011 NCCMP memo to HHS regarding the treatment of multiemployer plans. Click here to read an Inside Health Insurance Exchanges article in which Randy DeFrehn discusses how and why multiemployer plans should be eligible for the premium subsidies.