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A summary plan description (SPD) is a document an employer gives to their employees who are participating in retirement or health benefits plans covered under the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

One of the most important documents participants are entitled to receive automatically when becoming a participant of an ERISA-covered retirement or health benefit plan or a beneficiary receiving benefits under such a plan, is a summary of the plan, called the summary plan description or SPD.

What is a plan document? The plan document is a written document that describes the participant's rights, benefits, and obligations within the plan, as well as the plan's terms and conditions for administering the plan. The plan document should include the Trust Agreement (if applicable) and Insurance Contract(s).

Expiration dates on determination letters issued to individually designed plans prior to January 4, 2016, are no longer operative. Letters issued after that date do not contain an expiration date (see Revenue Procedure 2016-37, Section 13).

A Summary Plan Description (SPD) is a document that employers must give free to employees who participate in Employee Retirement Income Security Act-covered retirement plans or health benefit plans. The SPD is a detailed guide to the benefits the program provides and how the plan works.

The summary plan description (SPD) is simply a summary of the plan document required to be written in such a way that the participants of the benefits plan can easily understand it. Unlike the plan document, the SPD is required to be distributed to plan participants.

Plan Representative means the one or more persons who are designated as such by the Committee for purposes of witnessing spousal consents and performing such other duties as are required under the provisions of this Plan document to be performed by a Plan Representative.

A summary plan description (SPD) is a document an employer gives to their employees who are participating in retirement or health benefits plans covered under the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).