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How to Request Information About Your Benefits
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How to Designate Your Plan Beneficiary



REQUESTING BENEFIT INFORMATION
The Plan offers a number of ways that active Plan participants can check on their Plan coverage, vesting status, recent coverage and earned benefits. It’s never too soon to find out what the Plan offers and to get accurate benefit information.

Personal Benefit Statements are sent automatically by the end of June each year to most active participants with valid addresses on file. If you haven’t received a statement and you worked 250 or more covered hours in the previous year, contact your Area Administrative Office. They can verify your address, making any corrections necessary to ensure that you receive all of your future statements.

The information included on your Personal Benefit Statement is not verified. For this reason, you should periodically request one of the statements described below.

The statements listed below are available by contacting your Area Administrative Office. (Always provide your Social Security number.) These statements are available free of charge. Each can be requested once every 12 months.

Participants can also schedule a personal interview with a Plan representative to discuss Plan coverage, benefits and retirement choices by contacting their local union or Area Administrative Office

Work History Statement

• Gives a complete listing of all the covered hours paid on your behalf.
• Reports your vesting status, including any interruptions of service or forfeitures.
• Provides information about your eligibility for the Rule of 84 and PEER.
  

Accrued Benefit Statement

• Reports your vesting status, including any interruptions of service or forfeitures.
• Estimates your normal retirement benefit (age 65)—based on your covered employment to date.
• Provides information about your eligibility for the Rule of 84 and PEER.
  

Estimate of Benefits

• Available if you are vested and nearing your earliest retirement age (age 55).
• Estimates benefit amounts under each available payment option, based on your age and your spouse’s age (if married) for the pension effective date you request.
• Provides information about your eligibility for the Rule of 84 or PEER on the pension effective date you request.
  

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