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Walberg Leads Letter Asking DOL to Modernize Correspondence with American Workers and Families

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2025
Today, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Walberg (R-MI) along with Representatives Rick W. Allen (R-GA), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Kevin Kiley (R-CA), Michael Rulli (R-OH), Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), Mark Messmer (R-IN), and Randy Fine (R-FL) sent a letter requesting that the Department of Labor (DOL) modernize federal regulations by making electronic delivery the default for benefit providers to communicate with Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health and welfare plan participants.

In the letter, members write: “While the world of business and commerce has evolved considerably in recent decades due in part to new, secure forms of digital communication, ERISA health and welfare plan communications continue to operate under a largely outdated system of physical paper and hand delivery. As we look to strengthen and modernize this critical program, which currently serves millions of American workers and their families, we urge the Department of Labor (DOL) to prioritize rulemaking to establish a default electronic delivery (e-delivery) safe harbor for ERISA health and welfare plan disclosures.”

The letter continues: “Expanding default e-delivery for health and welfare plans is a needed improvement that would benefit the backbone of the U.S. economy—American employers and workers—by having the following effects: 
  • Reducing a costly regulatory burden for American businesses and health plans.
  • Enhancing workers’ access to information about their health benefits.
  • Supporting the health of the American workforce.
  • Reducing need for physical mailings.”
The letter concludes: “We believe that rulemaking to establish a default e-delivery safe harbor for ERISA health and welfare plans is a straightforward step that would benefit American workers while reducing the unnecessary administrative costs of current paper mandates. We recognize that rulemaking will require collaboration with the Departments of Health and Human Services and the Treasury, and we encourage DOL to initiate this important rulemaking at its earliest opportunity.”
 
Read the full letter here.

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