9 If you terminate employment with a vested account balance exceeding $5,000, you may elect to postpone your distribution until your "required beginning date" described below. If your vested account balance does not exceed $5,000, a distribution of your vested account balance will be made to you, regardless of whether you consent to receive it, as soon as administratively feasible following your termination of employment. (See the question entitled "In what method and form will my benefits be paid to me?" below for an explanation of the method of payment.) Amounts in your rollover account will not be considered as part of your benefit in determining whether the $5,000 threshold for timing of payments described above has been exceeded as well as for determining if the value of your vested account balance exceeds the $5,000 threshold used to determine whether you must consent to a distribution. Automatic Rollover of Certain Account Balances. If your vested account balance does not exceed $5,000, the Plan will distribute your account without your consent. If the amount of the distribution exceeds $1,000 (including any rollover contribution) and you do not elect to either receive or roll over the distribution, your distribution will be directly rolled over to an IRA. See "Automatic IRA Rollover of Certain Account Balances" in the Article in this SPD entitled "Tax Treatment of Distributions." Distribution on or after Normal Retirement Age (or age 62 if later) If you terminate employment with the Employer and will receive distribution on or after the later of age 62 or Normal Retirement Age, the Plan will distribute your account without your consent. The distribution will occur as soon as administratively feasible at the same time described above for other pre-62/Normal Retirement Age distributions not requiring your consent, but in any event distribution will be made no later than 60 days after the end of the Plan Year in which you terminate employment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if your vested account balance exceeds $5,000 (including rollover contributions), you may elect to postpone your distribution until your "required beginning date" described below. What is Normal Retirement Age and what is the significance of reaching Normal Retirement Age? You will attain your Normal Retirement Age when you reach age 65. What happens if I terminate employment due to disability? Definition of disability. Under the Plan, disability is defined as the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months. The permanence and degree of such impairment must be supported by medical evidence. The Plan Administrator may require that your disability be determined by a licensed physician. Payment of benefits. If you terminate employment because you become disabled, you will be entitled to your vested account balance under the Plan and the Plan will distribute your account balance in the same manner as for any other non-death related termination. In what method and form will my benefits be paid to me? Termination and distribution before Normal Retirement Age (or age 62 if later) If you terminate employment and will receive a distribution before the later of age 62 or Normal Retirement Age and your vested account balance does not exceed $5,000, then your vested account balance may only be distributed to you in a single lump-sum payment in cash. If you terminate employment and will receive a distribution before the later of age 62 and Normal Retirement Age and your vested account balance exceeds $5,000, you may elect to receive a distribution of your vested account balance in: • a single lump-sum payment in cash • installments over a period of not more than your assumed life expectancy (or the assumed life expectancies of you and your beneficiary) • partial distributions. You may request a distribution of some or all of your Plan accounts, at any time following your termination of employment, subject to any reasonable limits regarding timing and amounts as the Plan Administrator may impose. In determining whether your vested account balance exceeds the $5,000 dollar threshold, "rollovers" (and any earnings allocable to "rollover" contributions) will not be taken into account.