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In 2004, the Department of Labor closed 220 cases with ESOP violations, up from 187 in 2002. In October of this year, the Department launched a special investigation of ESOP abuses.

The News-Gazette of Champaign, IL, reported on December 22, 2017, that the Department of Labor is investigating ESOP-owned Hobbico.

The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued interim regulations for certain service providers to qualified retirement plans that will require additional disclosures to clients (75 Fed. Reg. 41600, July 16).

On October 22, 2019, the Department of Labor issued proposed new rules on filing electronic notices.

On January 13, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor announced various changes to the Form 5500 delinquent filer voluntary compliance program. The changes include a requirement to file electronically, specified which forms need to be filed, and created an online calculator for penalties.

A lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor against the DirecTECH Holding Co. Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan resulted in six consent judgments requiring payment of $10,454,545 in restitution to plan participants and $1,045,454 in civil penalties to the federal government.

Speaking to the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Benefits Committee in New Orleans in February, Department of Labor Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) Tim Hauser said ESOP valuations have been "an area of chronic problems" t

The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has proposed to define ESOP appraisers as fiduciaries (see "Definition of the Term 'Fiduciary,'" 29 CFR Part 2510 RIN 1210-AB32,

On May 4, the Department of Labor (DOL) reached a settlement with the insurers for Cactus Feeders, certain of its present and former directors, officers, and members of its ESOP committee, and Lubbock National Bank (the ESOP trustee), who with no admission of liability agreed to pay $5.4 million

On July 21, the Department of Labor announced that it had agreed to a $5.5 million settlement in Acosta v. Ginsberg. The DOL alleged that the founder of the company received an inflated price when he sold 50% of his shares to the ESOP in 2009.