Eligible Persons. The following individuals shall be eligible to receive the Benefits set out in section 5, provided the individual makes timely and adequate application therefor; (a) Employees with at least one year of seniority provided however that eligibility ceases for any such Employee who has been continuously laid off for a period exceeding eighteen (18) months after the month in which such Employee's layoff began. (b) Covered Dependents, including the Spouse and Surviving Spouse, of Employees eligible under 4.01(a), provided however eligibility shall continue for thirty (30) days after the death of the Employee or of the Surviving Spouse. (c) Retirees and their Covered Dependents, including Spouse and Surviving Spouse. (d) For estate matters only, personal representatives of the estates of those persons who at the date of their death, were eligible to receive benefits under any of sub-sections (a), (b) or (c) above. For greater certainty, eligible persons does not include any employee hired on or after September 24, 2012, or any individual who was formerly such an employee or their covered dependents.
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Sources: Supplemental Agreement, Agreement Concerning the Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan, the Separation Payment Plan, and the Automatic Short Week Benefit Plan