The Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") of 1974 governs employee benefit plans and sets minimum standards for these retirement and health benefit plans. If a participant is married and chooses to designate someone other than their . It also may pay out a survivor's benefit to the spouse or dependent child, but these benefits will be taxed as income. The U.S. Department of Labor may request plan documents at any time, and you must provide them. [CDATA[/* >
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