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When Are You Considered Married?
For
purposes of determining your automatic forms of Retirement Payments, you are
considered married (and thus the qualified joint and survivor annuity is your
normal form of benefit) if you were legally married for the one year period
preceding your annuity starting date (or date of death, if earlier). If you
were married for less than one year at your annuity starting date, you will be
considered unmarried (and thus entitled to a single life annuity as your normal
form of benefit) until you have been legally married for one year. At that
point, you will be treated as married, and the qualified joint and survivor
annuity will become your automatic form of payment. If you die prior to your
annuity starting date, and you were married for less than one year at your date
of death, you will be considered unmarried for purposes of determining rights to
retirement benefits under the Plan. (Please note that these rules are different
for the Supplementary Portion of the Plan, described here.)
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