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H.R. 717 (96th)
A bill to provide joint and survivors' annuity benefits under private pension plans based upon the participant's vested benefit.
Introduced
15 January 1979
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Status
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Summary
Amends the Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that, in order for a pension plan to provide annuity benefits in a form having the effect of a qualified joint and survivor annuity, such plan must, if the participant dies before the earliest retirement age, provide a survivor's annuity for the spouse which: (1) begins on the annuity starting date; and (2) makes payments not less than those which would have been made if the participant had separated from the service immediately before such person's death.
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Introduced in House
summary · EN · 15 January 1979
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/717
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/96/hr/717