---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 1382"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "1382"
heading: "Determination and collection of liability; notification of employer"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/1382"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Employee Retirement Income Security Program"
  - "Subchapter III — Plan Termination Insurance"
  - "Subtitle E — Special Provisions for Multiemployer Plans"
  - "Part 1 — employer withdrawals"
---

# §1382. Determination and collection of liability; notification of employer


When an employer withdraws from a [multiemployer plan](/usc/29/1301.md?p=a-3), the [plan sponsor](/usc/29/1083.md?p=c-7-F-i), in accordance with this part, shall—

- (1) determine the amount of the employer’s withdrawal liability,
- (2) notify the employer of the amount of the withdrawal liability, and
- (3) collect the amount of the withdrawal liability from the employer.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–406, title IV, § 4202, as added Pub. L. 96–364, title I, § 104(2), Sept. 26, 1980, 94 Stat. 1218.)