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Any such employees actually hired by Buyer shall hereinafter be referred to as \"Transferred Employees.\" Salaries, --------------------- wages and all other regular current compensation of each Transferred Employee which is attributable to services performed by each such Transferred Employee on or prior to the Closing Date shall be paid by Seller directly to that employee. All other cash compensation, including, but not limited to, incentive pay, bonuses and other payments or obligations of any kind whatsoever in the nature of compensation, arising after the Closing Date shall be paid by Buyer directly to the Transferred Employee entitled thereto.\n(b) Prior to the Closing Date, Seller shall cause the account balances of Transferred Employees who are participants in Seller's 401(k) Plan (the \"Seller's Plan\") to become fully vested as of the Closing Date. Seller shall -------------- provide each Transferred Employee with an election to receive a distribution of his or her fully vested benefit as soon as practicable after the Closing Date. Upon Seller providing Buyer with a current determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service confirming the tax qualified status of Seller's Plan, the Coinmach 401(k) Plan (the \"Coinmach Plan\") shall, as soon as reasonably ------------- practicable thereafter, permit Transferred Employees to roll over (including by means of a direct rollover within the meaning of Code Section 401(a)(31)) any distribution that any such Transferred Employee may receive or be entitled to receive from Seller's Plan which qualifies as an \"eligible rollover distribution\" as defined in Section 402(f)(2)(A) of the Code.\n(c) Seller shall pay or cause to be paid all claims for health care benefits covered by any of its health care plans which relate to claims incurred by Transferred Employees or their dependents on or before the Closing Date, regardless of when such claims may be filed. 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