B. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE DISTRIBUTION RULES.
Pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, the Plan contains certain other benefit distribution rules. First, if you die after payment of your individual account has commenced and a portion of your individual account remains to be paid, the payments to your beneficiary must be made at least as rapidly as provided in the form of payment being made at the time of your death.
Second, if you die before distribution of your individual account has begun, distribution of your individual account must be completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of your death. If, however, your benefits are payable to a designated beneficiary, the distribution may be made over the life (or life expectancy) of the designated beneficiary, but payments must commence on or before December 31 of the year immediately following the year in which you died. If your spouse is the beneficiary, however, he or she does not have to commence receiving benefits until the 1st of April following the year you would have attained age 70½.
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