Pipe Fitters Association Local 597 401(k) plan

Pipe Fitters Association Local 597, Chicago, IL. EIN 36-1820310. Annual reports 2009–2024.

Pipe Fitters Association Local 597 has one active retirement plan on file, the Pipe Fitters Association L.U. 597, U.A. 401(k) Pla, with 11,439 participants and $2.5 billion in assets in 2024. Empower has been its recordkeeper since 2023. No traditional pension plan appears in Pipe Fitters Association Local 597's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 11,439
Plan assets: $2.5 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Empower
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Construction

The plan

Pipe Fitters Association L.U. 597, U.A. 401(k) Pla

401(k)ActiveUnion (multiemployer)

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 36-1820310
Participants (2024): 11,439
Net assets (2024): $2.5 billion
Recordkeeper: EmpowerEarlier: MassMutual (2010–2011)
Plan administrator: Pipe Fitters Association Local 597
45 North Ogden Avenue
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 633-0597As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1999

Plans merged into this one: Northern Illinois Retirement Fund (2013).

Earlier plan names: Pipe Fitters Association L.U. 597, U.A. 401K Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	11,439	$2.5 billion	Empower
2023	11,130	$2.2 billion	Empower
2022	10,442	$1.8 billion	not listed
2021	10,272	$2.0 billion	not listed
2020	10,259	$1.7 billion	not listed
2019	10,050	$1.5 billion	not listed
2018	9,924	$1.2 billion	not listed
2017	9,847	$1.2 billion	not listed
2016	9,966	$950 million	not listed
2015	9,501	$818 million	not listed
2014	9,367	$744 million	not listed
2013	8,649	$595 million	not listed
2012	8,335	$444 million	not listed
2011	8,030	$344 million	MassMutual
2010	7,892	$280 million	MassMutual
2009	7,570	$209 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Empower (empower.com), which runs the Pipe Fitters Association L.U. 597, U.A. 401(k) Pla. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((312) 633-0597). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

The plan

Pipe Fitters Association L.U. 597, U.A. 401(k) Pla

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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