OSHKOSH CORPORATION
EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
Amended and Restated
Effective December 31, 2008
(Plan Year Begins March 1)
OSHKOSH CORPORATION
EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS
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1.1. Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit
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Section
1.2. Active Participant
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1.3. Actuarial Equivalent
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Section
1.4. Affiliate
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Section
1.5. Beneficiary
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Section
1.6. Board
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Section
1.7. Change in Control
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1.8. Code
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1.9. Committee
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1.10. Company
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Section
1.11. Company Matching Contribution Benefit
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1.12. Compensation
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Section
1.13. Compensation Year
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Section
1.14. Completed Compensation Year
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Section
1.15. Early Retirement Date
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1.16. Employee
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1.17. Employer
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1.18. Final Average Compensation
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1.19. Funded Plan
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1.20. Funded Plan Benefit
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1.21. Inactive Participant
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1.22. Late Retirement Date
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Section
1.23. Normal Retirement Date
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Section
1.24. Officer
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1.25. Participant
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1.26. Plan
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1.27. Plan Effective Date
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1.28. Plan Year
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Section
1.29. Restatement Effective Date
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Section
1.30. Retirement Benefit
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Section
1.31. Retirement Date
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Section
1.32. Social Security Benefit
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Section
1.33. Spouse
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Section
1.34. Years of Credited Service
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Section
1.35. Years of Service
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Section
1.36. Years of Officer Service
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ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION
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Section
2.1. Participating Employees
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Section
2.2. Cessation of Participation
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ARTICLE III.
FORM AND AMOUNT OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS
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Section
3.1. Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit
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Section
3.2. Early Retirement Benefit
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Section
3.3. Deferred Vested Retirement Benefits
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Section
3.4. Form and Timing of Benefit
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Section
3.5. Treatment of Plan Payments Under Other Plans
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ARTICLE IV. DEATH BENEFITS BEFORE RETIREMENT
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Section
4.1. Death of a Participant Before Commencement of Retirement
Benefit
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Section
4.2. Preretirement Spouse’s Death Benefit
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ARTICLE V. VESTING
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Section
5.1. Vesting
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Section
5.2. Effect of Change in Control
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ARTICLE VI. PAYMENT OF RETIREMENT BENEFIT
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Section
6.1. Survival
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Section
6.2. Administrative Powers Relating to Payments
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Section
6.3. Missing Persons
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Section
6.4. Lump Sum Cash-Out
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ARTICLE VII. GENERAL PROVISIONS
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Section
7.1. Funding
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Section
7.2. Continuation of the Plan
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Section
7.3. Right to Amend, Suspend or Terminate
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Section
7.4. Rights to Benefits
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Section
7.5. Titles
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Section
7.6. Separability
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Section
7.7. Authorized Officers
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Section
7.8. No Contract of Employment
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Section
7.9. Data
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Section
7.10. Restrictions Upon Assignments and Creditors’
Claims
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Section
7.11. Applicable Law
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ARTICLE VIII. CODE SECTION 409A GRANDFATHERING
PROVISIONS
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Section
8.1. General Grandfathering Rule
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Section
8.2. 409A Grandfathered Benefit Amount
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Section
8.3. Payment of Grandfathered Benefit Amount
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Section
8.4. 409A Non-Grandfathered Benefit Amount
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Section
8.5. Payment of 409A Grandfathered Benefit Amount
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EXHIBIT A
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EXHIBIT B
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OSHKOSH CORPORATION
EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
PREAMBLE
The
principal objective of the Oshkosh Corporation Executive Retirement
Plan is to ensure the payment of a competitive level of retirement
income in order to attract, retain and motivate selected
executives.
This
Plan is designed to provide a benefit which, when added to other
retirement income of the executive, will meet the objective
described above. Eligibility for participation in this Plan shall
be limited to executives selected by the Chief Executive Officer
and approved by the Human Resources Committee or its successor in
function of the Board of Directors.
The
Company adopted this Plan with an initial effective date of January
31, 2000. The Plan was subsequently amended on July 16, 2004,
effective October 1, 2004; however, the changes reflected in that
amendment and restatement were effective only with respect to those
Active Participants who, as of October 1, 2004, were actively
performing services for the Company on a substantially full-time
basis.
The
Plan is further amended and restated effective December 31, 2008,
primarily to conform to the requirements of Code Section 409A. This
amendment and restatement is effective for all Participants in the
Plan on December 31, 2008. It does not materially modify the terms
of the Plan as in effect on October 1, 2004, except with respect to
changes to the Plan which establish separate rules regarding the
form and timing of Retirement Benefit payments accrued and vested
on or after January 1, 2005.
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OSHKOSH CORPORATION
EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
Whenever
used herein with the initial letter capitalized, words and phrases
shall have the meanings stated below unless a different meaning is
plainly required by the context. All masculine terms shall include
the feminine and all singular terms shall include the plural in all
cases in which they could thus be applied unless the context
clearly indicates the gender or the number.
Section 1.1. Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit .
“Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit” means the amount of
a Participant’s Retirement Benefit, determined as of his date
of termination of employment, commencing as of the first day of the
month following the month in which the Participant attains his
Normal Retirement Date, and payable in the form of a single life
annuity (or the Actuarial Equivalent of such amount when commencing
at any other day or payable in another form). The amount of the
Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit is defined in section
3.1.
Section 1.2. Active Participant . “Active
Participant” means a Participant who is a current Employee of
the Company or an Affiliate.
Section 1.3. Actuarial Equivalent . “Actuarial
Equivalent” means a benefit payable at a particular time and
in a particular form which has the same value as another benefit
payable in another form or at another time. Such Actuarial
Equivalent shall be determined on the basis of a 7-1/2 percent
interest rate and the 1971 Group Annuity Table, with male annuity
factors weighted 70 percent and female annuity factors weighted 30
percent. With respect to lump sum distributions pursuant to section
6.4, the mortality and interest rate assumptions shall be as
prescribed in such section.
Section 1.4. Affiliate . “Affiliate” means: (1)
a corporation which is a member of the same controlled group of
corporations (within the meaning of Internal Revenue Code section
414(b) as the Employer; (2) an unincorporated trade or business
which is under common control with the Employer (as determined
under Code section 414(c); (3) an organization which, together with
the Employer, is a member of the same affiliated service group (as
determined under Code section 414(m); and (4) any other entity
required to be aggregated under Code section 414(o).
Section 1.5. Beneficiar y. “Beneficiary”
means—
(a)
the Spouse if the Preretirement Spouse’s Death Benefit, the
Joint and 50 Percent Spouse’s Annuity, or the Joint and 100
Percent Spouse’s Annuity is payable;
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(b)
the person or persons (who may be named contingently or
successively) , including a trust or an estate, designated by a
Participant, to whom a death benefit is to be paid in the event of
his death.
Each
designation will revoke all prior designations by the same
Participant. A designation shall be made on a form prescribed by
the Employer, and will be effective only when filed in writing with
the Employer. If no Beneficiary is designated or a designation is
revoked in whole or in part, or if a designated Beneficiary does
not survive, the lump sum Actuarial Equivalent of the death benefit
(if any) shall be payable to the estate of the last to survive the
Participant or the Beneficiary.
Section 1.6. Board . “Board” means the Board of
Directors of the Company.
Section 1.7. Change in Control . “Change in
Control” means a change in management or a change in
ownership of the corporation as defined in the Participant’s
Key Executive Employment and Severance Agreement
(“KEESA”) in effect on the date that such a change in
control occurs or, in the absence of such an agreement, as defined
in Exhibit B, attached to this Plan and incorporated here by
reference.
Section 1.8. Code . “Code” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations
thereunder.
Section 1.9. Committee . “Committee” means the
Human Resources Committee of the Board or its successor in
substantial functions.
Section 1.10. Company . “Company” means Oshkosh
Corporation.
Section 1.11. Company Matching Contribution Benefit .
“Company Matching Contribution Benefit” means Oshkosh
Corporation’s matching contribution to (1) a
Participant’s Oshkosh Corporation Tax Deferred Investment
Plan Account, or a Participant Account in a Tax Deferred Savings
Plan sponsored by an Affiliate, as defined in the governing
documents for such Plans, as amended from time to time, and (2) any
related investment earnings. To the extent that a Participant has
withdrawn Company Matching Contributions, such contributions along
with imputed income thereon, shall be added to the
Participant’s accumulated Company Matching Contribution
Benefit. For purposes of this section 1.10, a Participant’s
accumulated Company Matching Contribution Benefit will be converted
into an annual benefit amount payable as a single life annuity
commencing as of the Participant’s Retirement Date using the
interest and mortality assumptions set forth in section
1.2.
Section 1.12. Compensation . “Compensation”
means an Active Participant’s base pay, including base pay
amounts deferred pursuant to a compensation reduction agreement
under Code section 125, Code Section 132(f), Code section 401(k) or
any nonqualified deferred compensation arrangement, and annual
bonus or annual incentive payments. The annual compensation limit
set forth in Code section 401(a)(17) shall not apply.
Section 1.13. Compensation Year . “Compensation
Year” means each 12-month period used to determine
compensation for purposes of this Plan which coincides with the
calendar year which ends on or prior to the date as of which the
Participant’s Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit is
determined.
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Section 1.14. Completed Compensation Year . “Completed
Compensation Year” means any Compensation Year in which an
Employee is employed through the entire 12-month period.
Section 1.15. Early Retirement Date . “Early
Retirement Date” means the first day of the month following
the date on which a Participant retires prior to his Normal
Retirement Date; provided that the Participant shall have attained
age 55, shall have completed at least five Years of Officer
Service, and shall have provided the Company with written notice of
his election to take early retirement.
Section 1.16. Employee . “Employee” means any
person in the employ of the Company or an Affiliate, except for a
person compensated solely on a retainer or fee basis.
Section 1.17. Employer . “Employer” means the
Company and any Affiliates, which employ or employed any
Participant.
Section 1.18. Final Average Compensation . “Final
Average Compensation” means the sum of an Active
Participant’s Compensation during the five Completed
Compensation Years in the last ten years prior to the
Participant’s separation from service or categorization as an
Inactive Participant, as applicable, during which the Compensation
was the highest, divided by five. The years used for this
calculation need not be consecutive. If a Participant has less than
five Completed Compensation Years, Final Average Compensation will
be based on all Completed Compensation Years divided by the number
of such years.
Section 1.19. Funded Plan . “Funded Plan” means
the Oshkosh Corporation Salaried and Clerical Employees Retirement
Plan or any qualified defined benefit plan sponsored by an
Affiliate.
Section 1.20. Funded Plan Benefit . “Funded Plan
Benefit” means the annual benefit payable under (1) the
Oshkosh Corporation Salaried and Clerical Employees Retirement
Plan, and (2) any qualified defined benefit pension plan sponsored
by an Affiliate, as provided by the governing documents for such
Plans, as amended from time to time. For purposes of this section,
a Participant’s annual benefit will be calculated as a single
life annuity commencing as of the Participant’s Retirement
Date.
Section 1.21. Inactive Participant . “Inactive
Participant” means a Participant with a fully or partially
vested Retirement Benefit hereunder who (i) is no longer an
Employee of the Company or an Affiliate, or (ii) has been removed
as an Active Participant by the Committee.
Section 1.22. Late Retirement Date . “Late Retirement
Date” means the first day of the month following a
Participant’s termination date after his Normal Retirement
Date.
Section 1.23. Normal Retirement Date . “Normal
Retirement Date” means the first day of the month following a
Participant’s 62nd birthday (without regard to the
Participant’s Years of Service at that time).
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Section 1.24. Officer . “Officer” means any
individual who is elected by the Board of Directors to an officer
of the company as a Vice President, Executive Vice President,
President, Chief Executive Officer, or Chairman.
Section 1.25. Participant . “Participant” means
any person who has become eligible to participate in the Plan in
accordance with Article II, and who has not ceased to have rights
to a Retirement Benefit hereunder.
Section 1.26. Plan . “Plan” means the Oshkosh
Corporation Executive Retirement Plan, as set forth herein, and as
it may be amended from time to time.
Section 1.27. Plan Effective Date . “Plan Effective
Date” means January 1, 2000.
Section 1.28. Plan Year . “Plan Year” means the
12 consecutive month period for maintaining records for this Plan
and will be the consecutive 12-month period beginning each March 1
and ending on the last day of February, except the first Plan Year
shall run from the Plan Effective Date until the last day of the
next following February.
Section 1.29. Restatement Effective Date .
“Restatement Effective Date” means October 1, 2004;
provided, however, that the changes reflected in this Plan
restatement shall be effective only with respect to those Active
Participants who, as of October 1, 2004, are actively performing
services for the Company on a substantially full-time basis.
Effective December 31, 2008, “Restatement Effective
Date” also means December 31, 2008; provided, however, that
the changes reflected in this Plan restatement shall not materially
modify the terms of the Plan as in effect on October 1, 2004,
except with respect to changes to the Plan which establish separate
rules regarding the form and timing of Retirement Benefit payments
accrued and vested on or after January 1, 2005.
Section 1.30. Retirement Benefit . “Retirement
Benefit” means a pension or any other payment or payments
payable under the terms of this Plan to a Participant, the
Participant’s Spouse, or Beneficiary.
Section 1.31. Retirement Date . “Retirement
Date” means the date on which a Participant’s Funded
Plan Benefit commences.
Section 1.32. Social Security Benefit . “Social
Security Benefit” means, for the purpose of determining the
Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit as of a Participant’s
Normal Retirement Date or Early Retirement Date, the estimated
monthly old-age benefit to which the Participant would be entitled
beginning immediately upon his achieving his Normal Retirement Date
under the provisions of the Social Security Act in effect on the
date of his termination and assuming that he will continue to
receive until he attains his Normal Retirement Date compensation
that would be treated as wages for purposes of the Social Security
Act at the same rate as was in effect for him immediately prior to
his termination. For purposes of determining the Accrued Normal
Retirement Benefit as of a Participant’s Late Retirement
Date, “Social Security Benefit” means the estimated
monthly old-age benefit to which the Participant would be entitled
based on his age as of the date of his termination.
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In
estimating wages for purposes of determining the Social Security
Benefit, it shall be assumed that the Participant’s
compensation prior to date of termination has increased annually at
the same rates as the Average Total Wages for Adjusting Earnings to
use in Computing Social Security Benefits as published by the
Social Security Administration. For the calendar year subsequent to
the last year published by the Social Security Administration, the
same rate of increase as applicable to the last published year
shall be used.
The
Social Security Benefit shall be determined in accordance with
rules adopted by the Employer and applied in a nondiscriminatory
manner. Each Participant will be provided with clear written notice
of his right to supply to the Employer his actual wage history and
of the financial consequences of failing to supply such
history.
Section 1.33. Spouse . “Spouse” means an
individual who is legally married to a Participant as of the
earlier of the date of the Participant’s death or the
Participant's Retirement Date.
Section 1.34. Years of Credited Service . “Years of
Credited Service” means the Years of Service an Employee
completed while employed by the Company or an Affiliate to a
maximum of 20 Years.
Section 1.35. Years of Service . “Years of
Service” means the aggregate of all periods of employment by
an Employee of the Employer, each such period to be calculated in
completed years and months.
Section 1.36. Years of Officer Service . “Years of
Officer Service” means the aggregate of all periods of
employment as an Officer of Oshkosh Corporation including service
before this Plan’s effective date as set forth on Exhibit A,
but excluding periods of employment with Oshkosh Corporation or any
Affiliate in any other capacity.
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ARTICLE II
PARTICIPATION
Section 2.1. Participating Employees . Each executive
Employee selected by the Chief Executive Officer
(“CEO”) and approved by the Committee to participate in
the Plan shall become a Participant on the date specified by the
Committee, as set forth in Exhibit A or as subsequently established
by the Committee for new participants. Each Participant’s
right to Retirement Benefits under this Plan shall vest in
accordance with Article V hereof.
Section 2.2. Cessation of Participation . Unless determined
otherwise by the Committee, while a Participant remains an Employee
he shall be an Active Participant and shall accrue Years of Service
and Compensation for purposes of his Retirement Benefit as provided
under the Plan. At the time a Participant becomes an Inactive
Participant, he or she shall no longer accrue Years of Service and
Compensation toward his Retirement Benefit, but shall have a
deferred vested Retirement Benefit. If and when a Participant with
no vested Retirement Benefit ceases to be an Employee, he shall
cease to be a Participant as of such date and his accrued
Retirement Benefit shall be forfeited.
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ARTICLE III
FORM AND AMOUNT OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Section 3.1. Accrued Normal Retirement Benefit . The Accrued
Normal Retirement Benefit payable to a Participant who retires on
or after the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date shall be a
monthly Retirement Benefit commencing on the Participant’s
Retirement Date and payable during the Participant’s lifetime
and ceasing with the last payment due on the first day of the month
in which the Participant dies. The monthly Accrued Normal
Retirement Benefit shall be equal to one-twelfth of the excess, if
any, of (a) less the sum of (b), (c), and (d) where:
(a)
equals two (2) percent of the Participant’s Final Average
Compensation multiplied by the Participant’s Years of
Credited Service,
(b)
equals one-half of the Participant’s annual Social Security
Benefit,
(c)
equals the Participant’s annual Company Matching Contribution
Benefit, and
(d)
equals Participant’s annual Funded Plan Benefit.
Section 3.2. Early Retirement Benefit . Each Participant who
retires prior to the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date
shall receive a monthly Early Retirement Benefit commencing on the
Participant’s Early Retirement Date and payable under the
normal form in accordance with section 3.1. The monthly Early
Retirement Benefit shall be equal to one-twelfth of the excess, if
any, of (a) less the sum of (b), (c), and (d) where:
(a)
equals two (2) percent of the Participant’s Final Average
Compensation multiplied by the Participant’s Years of
Credited Service and reduced by a factor based on the number of
years by which the Retirement Date precedes the Participant’s
Normal Retirement Date, as shown in the following
schedule:
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Number of years* by which the
Retirement Date precedes the
Participant’s Normal Retirement Date
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Portion of
Retirement Benefit Payable
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60.00%
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6
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63.33%
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5
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66.67%
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4
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73.33%
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3
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80.00%
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2
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86.67%
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93.33%
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0
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100.00%
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For a period
that is not an integral number of years, the portion to be applied
will be obtained by arithmetic interpolation between the
appropriate percentages set out above.
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(b)
equals one-half of the Participant’s annual Social Security
Benefit, reduced by .4167 percent for each month by which
Participant’s Early Retirement Date precedes the
Participant’s Normal Retirement Date,
(c)
equals the Participant’s annual Company Matching Contribution
Benefit payable at the Early Retirement Date, and
(d)
equals the annual Funded Plan Benefit payable at the Early
Retirement Date.
Section 3.3. Deferred Vested Retirement Benefits . An
Inactive Participant shall be paid his deferred vested Retirement
Benefit at his Retirement Date under the terms of Section 3.1 of
the Plan, unless such Participant qualifies for an Early Retirement
Benefit under Section 3.2 in which case payments may begin at such
Early Retirement Date.
Section 3.4. Form and Timing of Benefit . The benefit
payable to or on behalf of a Participant under this Plan shall be
paid in the normal form as provided by the Funded Plan or, as
elected by the Participant (or his Spouse, in the event of the
Participant’s death while employed), on a basis consistent
with all elections made by the Participant and/or Spouse under the
Funded Plan. Any conversions to an optional method of payment
permitted under the Funded Plan shall be the Actuarial Equivalent
of such normal form of payment. Benefits due under this Article III
shall be paid coincident with the payment date of benefits under
the Funded Plan.
Section 3.5. Treatment of Plan Payments Under Other Plans .
Benefits earned by a Participant under this Plan shall not be
considered “Compensation” as that term is defined in
other plans sponsored by the Employer.
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ARTICLE IV
DEATH BENEFITS BEFORE RETIREMENT
Section 4.1. Death of a Participant Before Commencement of
Retirement Benefit . If a Participant dies bef