OH IBEW Local 212 fringe benefit bonds.
4% of the bond amount plus a $25 fee.
A signatory electrical contractor working under the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local No. 212 collective bargaining agreement, based in the Cincinnati area, posts this bond so the fringe benefit contributions it reports each pay period actually reach Local 212's benefit funds. It is a collective bargaining obligation, not an Ohio licensing requirement. Premiums cost 4% of the bond amount plus a $25 fee, $125 minimum. The application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft credit pull only.
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A new signatory agreement usually comes with a start date attached, and the funds office wants the bond in hand before the first report. This one is built to move:
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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 IBEW Local 212 benefit funds office that administers your plans and collects the periodic reports. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the IBEW Local 212 fringe benefit bond actually guarantees
When an electrical contractor signs a collective bargaining agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local No. 212 — the local representing electricians in the Cincinnati, Ohio area — it takes on negotiated wage rates and employer contributions to the local's benefit funds, typically health and welfare, pension, and apprenticeship/training funds negotiated jointly with signatory contractors. A fringe benefit bond is the security the funds office can require a signatory contractor to post before it accepts reports, or when a contractor has a history of late or short payments.
The bond guarantees that the fringe benefit contributions reported each period actually reach the funds they are owed to. 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 an Ohio licensing requirement — no state agency issues it or receives it. The obligation runs from the collective bargaining agreement between the contractor and IBEW Local 212. We price the bond from a $125 minimum at 4% of the amount plus a $25 fee the funds office sets, and the application includes only a soft credit consent — never a hard inquiry.
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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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4% of the bond amount plus a $25 fee, $125 minimum. Enter the sum your funds office named and send it in the same day. Free until issued.