Benefit Commencement Date definition

Benefit Commencement Date means, for any Participant or beneficiary, the date as of which the first benefit payment, including a single sum, from the Participant’s Account is due, other than pursuant to a withdrawal under Article VIII.
Benefit Commencement Date means the first day on which all events have occurred that entitle a Participant to the benefit.
Benefit Commencement Date means the first day of the first period for which a participant or a beneficiary is entitled to receive an annuity or other benefit under the Plan;

Examples of Benefit Commencement Date in a sentence

  • For purposes of this subsection (b) only, the Benefit Commencement Date of a Participant entitled to a Disability Pension shall be the first day such payments commence.

  • In addition, if the Participant dies after the Participant’s Benefit Commencement Date, the remaining interest under the annuity contract must be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method used as of the date of the Participant’s death.

  • The term “Qualified Joint and 50% Survivor Annuity” shall mean an annuity for the life of the Participant with a survivor annuity for the life of the spouse of the Participant to whom he is married at his Benefit Commencement Date, which is 50% of the amount of the annuity payable during the joint lives of the Participant and the Participant's spouse and which is the actuarial equivalent of a single life annuity for the life of the Participant.

  • If a Participant remarries prior to his Benefit Commencement Date, he may again designate his spouse as a Joint Annuitant prior to his Benefit Commencement Date.

  • No such beneficiary designation shall be valid if the Participant is married on his Benefit Commencement Date unless the spouse consents to such designation in accordance with the rules set forth in Article VI, Section 2(b).


More Definitions of Benefit Commencement Date

Benefit Commencement Date means the first Valuation Date following the date on which all events have occurred which entitle the Participant or Beneficiary to a distribution from the Plan in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.
Benefit Commencement Date means, with respect to a Participant’s Accrued Benefit, the first day of the month coinciding with or immediately following the earliest of (a) the Participant’s death while employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates and (b) the later of the Participant’s Separation from Service or attainment of Normal Retirement Age.
Benefit Commencement Date. The first day, determined pursuant to Article V, for which a Participant or Beneficiary receives or begins to receive payment in any form of distribution as a result of death, Disability, termination of Employment, Early Retirement, Plan termination or upon or after Normal Retirement Age or age 70-1/2.
Benefit Commencement Date means the day on which the sole payment is made or the first day of the period for which the first in a series of payments constituting the distribution of an Accrued Benefit is made.
Benefit Commencement Date. 2 1.15 "CODA" 2 1.16 "CODA Compensation" 2 1.17 "Code" 2 1.18 "Compensation" 2 1.19 "Contribution Percentage" 3 1.20 "Contribution Percentage Amounts" 3 1.21 "Defined Benefit Plan" 3 1.22 "Defined Contribution Plan" 3 1.23 "Disability" 3 1.24 "Early Retirement" 3 1.25 "Early Retirement Date" 3 1.26 "Earned Income" 3 1.27 "Elective Deferrals" 3 1.28 "Elective Deferrals Account" 4 1.29 "Eligible Employee" 4 1.30 "Eligible Participant" 4 1.31 "Employee" 4 1.32 "Employee Thrift Contributions" 4 1.33 "Employee Thrift Contributions Account" 4 1.34 "Employer" 4 1.35 "Employer Account" 4 1.36 "Employer Contributions" 4 1.37 "Employer Contributions Account" 4 1.38 "Employment" 4 1.39 "Entry Date" 4 1.40 "ERISA" 4 1.41 "Excess Aggregate Contributions" 5 1.42 "Excess Contributions" 5 1.43 "Excess Elective Deferrals" 5 1.44 "Family Member" 5 1.45 "401(k) Contributions Accounts" 5 1.46 "401(k) Election" 5 1.47 "Fully Vested Separation" 5 1.48 "Group Trust" 5 1.49 "Highly Compensated Employee" 5 1.50 "Hour of Service" 6 1.51 "Immediately Distributable" 6 1.52 "Investment Manager" 6 1.53 "Key Employee" 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Benefit Commencement Date. 2 1.15 "CODA" 2 1.16 "CODA Compensation" 2 1.17 "Code" 2 1.18 "Compensation" 2 1.19 "Contribution Percentage" 3 1.20 "Contribution Percentage Amounts" 3 1.21 "Defined Benefit Plan" 3 1.22 "Defined Contribution Plan" 3 1.23 "Disability" 3 1.24 "Early Retirement" 3 1.25 "Early Retirement Date" 3 1.26 "Earned Income" 3 1.27 "Elective Deferrals" 3 1.28 "Elective Deferrals Account" 4 1.29 "Eligible Employee" 4 1.30 "Eligible Participant" 4 1.31 "Employee" 4 1.32 "Employee Thrift Contributions" 4 1.33 "Employee Thrift Contributions Account" 4 1.34 "Employer" 4 1.35 "Employer Account" 4 1.36 "Employer Contributions" 4 1.37 "Employer Contributions Account" 4 1.38 "Employment" 4 1.39 "Entry Date" 4 1.40 "ERISA" 4 1.41 "Excess Aggregate Contributions" 5 1.42 "Excess Contributions" 5 1.43 "Excess Elective Deferrals" 5 1.44 "Family Member" 5 1.45 "401(k) Contributions Accounts" 5 1.46 "401(k) Election" 5 1.47 "Fully Vested Separation" 5 1.48 "Group Trust" 5 1.49 "Highly Compensated Employee" 5 1.50 "Hour of Service" 6 1.51 "Immediately Distributable" 6 1.52 "Investment Manager" 6 1.53 "Key Employee" 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Benefit Commencement Date as used herein shall mean the earlier of the Participant's Early, Normal or Late Retirement Date, the effective date of the commencement of disability pension payments as set forth in Article V, Section 5(d), and the date benefits commence under Article V, Section 1(b).