DC Steamfitters Local 602 benefit bonds.
From $100.
A mechanical contractor signatory to Steamfitters UA Local 602's agreement posts this bond so the wages and fringe benefit contributions it reports each month reach the Heating, Piping and Refrigeration Benefit Funds. It is a collective bargaining obligation, not a D.C. licensing requirement. Premiums cost 4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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How much does a DC Steamfitters Local 602 benefit bond cost?
4% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
A new signatory agreement usually comes with a start date attached, and the funds office wants the bond in hand before the first monthly report. This one is built to move:
Apply online
Your company details, years in business, the bond amount your agreement or funds office set, an effective date, and the credit consent that authorizes a soft pull. That is the application.
Issued
Most applications approve instantly. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry that never affects your score, and no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.
Send it to the funds office
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to send to the Heating, Piping and Refrigeration Benefit Funds office in Capitol Heights, MD that administers your Local 602 plans and collects the monthly reports. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the Steamfitters Local 602 fringe benefit bond actually guarantees
When a mechanical, HVAC, refrigeration, or process-piping contractor signs a Steamfitters UA Local 602 collective bargaining agreement, it takes on negotiated wage rates and employer contributions to Local 602's benefit funds — medical coverage, a pension plan, and a retirement savings plan, administered through the Heating, Piping and Refrigeration Benefit Funds office. A wage and fringe benefit bond is the security the funds office can require a signatory contractor to post before it accepts monthly reports, or when a contractor has a history of late or short payments.
The bond guarantees that wage deductions and fringe benefit contributions reported each month actually reach the funds they are owed to — covering the medical, pension, and retirement savings benefits Local 602 negotiates on behalf of its roughly 5,000 journeymen, apprentices, and helpers across the Washington, D.C. metro area. If a contractor becomes delinquent, the funds office can make a claim against the bond, up to the bonded sum, to recover the shortfall; the surety then seeks reimbursement from the contractor. The bond amount is not a flat statutory figure — the union sets it under its own regulations and signatory agreements, scaled to the contractor's covered payroll and expected contribution exposure.
This is a private, contractual bond, not a District of Columbia licensing requirement — no D.C. agency issues it or receives it. The obligation runs from the collective bargaining agreement between the contractor and Steamfitters UA Local 602. We price the bond from a $100 minimum at 4% of the amount the funds office sets, and the application includes only a soft credit consent — never a hard inquiry.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
Issued. Most applications approve instantly. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry that never affects your score, and no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.
What sets the price
The premium is 4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, priced on the spot.
These are the actual issuing fields. The credit consent authorizes a soft pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score.
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Signatory status waiting on one bond.
4% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. Enter the sum your funds office named and send it in the same day. Free until issued.