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Enclosed is your Open Enrollment Material for 2016. Enrollment changes are accepted in July and take effect August 1, 2016

Enclosed is your Open Enrollment Material for 2016. Enrollment changes are accepted in July and take effect August 1, 2016

Year 2014 Contract Negotiations Settlement Wage Fringe Package

This notice includes important information about the funding status of your pension plan ("the Plan") and general information about the benefit payments guaranteed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC"), a federal insurance agency.

The 4th quarter investment performance reports are now available for the San Francisco Electrical Workers Retirement Savings Plan and for the Northern California Electrical Workers Pension Trust.

This year the IBEW Local 6/SFECA Scholarship Committee will award a total of fifteen educational grants to sons and daughters of contributors to EISB, Inc. including office staff and IBEW Local 6 members who are working for contributing employers (including sons and daughters of deceased members who were working for contributing employers at the time of their death). The Scholarship will be awarded based on merit according to a selection criteria that will include an essay and an individual interview.

Each year the Trustees are presented with a report from the Plan Consultants on adjustments to the retiree co-payments. The following table includes the adjusted monthly rates that will take effect on February 1, 2016.

Use this to wish to make a 401(k) deferral from 2016 hourly wages to your account in the San Francisco Electrical Workers Retirement Savings Plan.

All employees who have attained at least 45% Apprentice level and are working for an employer that contributes to the San Francisco Electrical Workers Retirement Savings Plan, may elect (or revise their current election) to make 401(k) pre-tax wage deferrals during open enrollment.

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