{"id":38518,"date":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/contracts\/uncategorized\/amendment-to-pension-plan-alcoa.html"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:58","slug":"amendment-to-pension-plan-alcoa","status":"publish","type":"corporate_contracts","link":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/contracts\/compensation\/amendment-to-pension-plan-alcoa.html","title":{"rendered":"Amendment to Pension Plan &#8211; Alcoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">AMENDMENT TO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ALCOA SUPPLEMENTAL PENSION PLAN FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to Section  5.1, which provides that the Plan may be amended, the<br \/>\nPlan is revised as follows:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<table style=\"BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"4%\" valign=\"top\"><strong>1.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Section  5.1 is amended to replace the reference in the<br \/>\nfinal sentence to &#8220;the Board of Directors&#8217; Inside Director Committee&#8221; with<br \/>\n&#8220;Benefits Management Committee&#8221;: <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This Plan may also be amended, from time to time by the Benefits Management<br \/>\nCommittee, except for amendments which have more than a minimal effect upon the<br \/>\nCompany&#8217;s cost of providing benefits for Company employees at the officer level.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<table style=\"BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"4%\" valign=\"top\"><strong>2.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>The following new <u>Article VII : Claims and<br \/>\nAppeals<\/u> is added: <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><u>ARTICLE VII : CLAIMS AND APPEALS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7.1 If a claim by a Participant, Surviving Spouse or beneficiary is denied in<br \/>\nwhole or in part, the Participant, Surviving Spouse or beneficiary, or their<br \/>\nrepresentative will receive written notice from the plan administrator. This<br \/>\nnotice will include the reasons for denial, the specific plan provision<br \/>\ninvolved, an explanation of how claims are reviewed, the procedure for<br \/>\nrequesting a review of the denied claim, and a description of the information<br \/>\nthat must be submitted with the appeal. The Participant, Surviving Spouse or<br \/>\nbeneficiary, or their representative, may file a written appeal for review of a<br \/>\ndenied claim to the plan administrator. The process and the time frames for the<br \/>\ndetermination claims and appeals are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>(a) The plan administrator reviews initial claim and makes determination<br \/>\nwithin 90 days of the date the claim is received.<\/p>\n<p>(b) The plan administrator may extend the above 90-day period an additional<br \/>\n90 days if required due to special circumstances beyond control of plan<br \/>\nadministrator.<\/p>\n<p>(c) The Participant, Surviving Spouse or beneficiary, or their<br \/>\nrepresentative, may submit an appeal of a denied claim within 60 days of receipt<br \/>\nof the denial.<\/p>\n<p>(d) The plan administrator reviews and makes a determination on the appeal<br \/>\nwithin 60 days of the date the appeal was received.<\/p>\n<p>(e) The plan administrator may extend the above 60-day period an additional<br \/>\n60 days if required by special circumstances beyond the control of the plan<br \/>\nadministrator.<\/p>\n<p>7.2 In the case where the plan administrator requires an extension of the<br \/>\nperiod to provide a determination on an initial claim or an appeal, the Plan<br \/>\nwill notify the<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">1<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Participant, Surviving Spouse or beneficiary, or their representative, prior<br \/>\nto the expiration of the initial determination period. The notification will<br \/>\ndescribe the circumstances requiring the extension and the date a determination<br \/>\nis expected to be made. If additional information is required from the<br \/>\nParticipant, Surviving Spouse or beneficiary, the determination period will be<br \/>\nsuspended until the earlier of i) the date the information is received by the<br \/>\nplan administrator or ii) 45 days from the date the information was requested.\n<\/p>\n<p>7.3 Participants, Surviving Spouses or Beneficiaries, or their<br \/>\nrepresentative, who having received an adverse appeal determination and thereby<br \/>\nexhausted the remedies provided under the this Plan, proceed to file suit in<br \/>\nstate or federal court, must file such suit within 180 days from the date of the<br \/>\nadverse appeal determination notice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<table style=\"BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"4%\" valign=\"top\"><strong>3.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>In all other respects, the Plan is ratified and<br \/>\nconfirmed. <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"center\">2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"corporate_contracts_companies":[6617],"corporate_contracts_industries":[9453],"corporate_contracts_types":[9539,9550],"class_list":["post-38518","corporate_contracts","type-corporate_contracts","status-publish","hentry","corporate_contracts_companies-alcoa-inc","corporate_contracts_industries-manufacturing__fabrication","corporate_contracts_types-compensation","corporate_contracts_types-compensation__retirement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts\/38518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/corporate_contracts"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_companies","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_companies?post=38518"},{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_industries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_industries?post=38518"},{"taxonomy":"corporate_contracts_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/legal-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/corporate_contracts_types?post=38518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}