Portico Benefits Form PDF Details

When a member steps away from their service with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), they are confronted with crucial decisions regarding their ELCA Retirement Plan account, especially when it pertains to managing their retirement savings. The separation from service necessitates a withdrawal request from the plan, presenting a pivotal moment for plan members to consider the best course of action for their financial security in retirement. Upon separation, plan members are afforded three principal options: to keep the investments within the plan to continue growing, to roll over additional eligible money into the plan, or to opt for withdrawals. Each option carries its own set of implications for a plan member’s financial future. Staying invested in the plan allows one’s retirement funds to persistently work on their behalf, potentially offering more financial stability in the long run. The possibility of rolling additional eligible money into the plan opens doors for further investment and growth, subject to certain tax considerations upon withdrawal. Choosing to withdraw funds, although providing immediate access to cash, might limit the extensive benefits the plan offers, including special clergy tax provisions, exemption from sales commissions, and diverse distribution options, along with a social purpose investment program. Alongside making an informed choice, understanding the impact of taxes, potential penalties for early withdrawal, and specific rules regarding rollovers is essential. Notably, the plan facilitates direct and indirect rollovers, though it's critical to adhere to the guidelines to avoid unnecessary taxes or penalties. Moreover, special conditions apply if one considers moving their savings to a Roth IRA, highlighting the tax implications and the importance of strategic financial planning post-separation. As plan members navigate these decisions, comprehensive support and guidance from the Portico Service Center are available, ensuring members have the necessary resources to make choices aligning with their long-term financial well-being.

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To:

Plan Member

From:

Service Center

Subject:

Separation from Service Withdrawal Request

 

ELCA Retirement Plan

Thank you for your ELCA service.

Enclosed is important information about your options for your ELCA Retirement Plan account. Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the choices you have for your account as a retirement plan member who has separated from service.

The good news is there’s no need to jump into any decisions regarding your account. Take your time.

Your options

Simply put, you have three options for what to do with your ELCA Retirement Plan account:

Remain in the plan and let your retirement dollars work for you

Roll additional eligible money into the plan

Make withdrawals

Remain in the plan – If your balance is more than $1,000, you can keep your account invested in the ELCA Retirement Plan. Your retirement money will stay right where it is — working for you as an investment until you need retirement income. Plus, we’ll continue to be in touch with you through quarterly statements and periodic communications.

Roll other eligible accounts in – Did you know that even after your employer and pretax contributions stop, you can still make contributions to the plan through rollovers? You have the same features and options with your rollover money as you do with your employer and pretax contributions, and you retain control of your rollover money, allowing you to make decisions about your financial future as you see fit (remember, there may be tax considerations on any withdrawals). Want to learn more? Contact us for details. We’d be happy to help!

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Withdrawals – Taking money out of your retirement account is an important decision. The money you withdraw no longer receives the benefits offered by the ELCA Retirement Plan, such as:

The housing allowance exclusion from federal gross income available to clergy

No sales commissions

A variety of retirement distribution options

A comprehensive social purpose investment program

After you’ve weighed the pros and cons, should you decide to request a withdrawal, complete the enclosed form and return it to the record keeper in the envelope provided. (Mailing your withdrawal form to Portico Benefit Services will delay the processing of your withdrawal.)

If you are considering making a rollover to another financial institution, we encourage you to first contact our Service Center. We’ll provide information about your options to make sure you are aware of tax consequences and fees you may incur rolling money elsewhere.

If you have any questions, the Service Center is available Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 8 p.m. (Eastern) at 800.352.2876 (select option 1). We also invite you to access additional information and resources developed especially for our members who have separated from service, at www.porticobenefits.org under Manage My Life Changes.

Enclosures

ELCA RETIREMENT PLAN

Special Tax Notice Regarding Plan Payments

Please Read This Notice

This notice explains how you can continue to defer federal income tax on your retirement savings from the ELCA Retirement Plan. It contains important information you will need before you decide how to receive your plan benefits.

NOTE: The ELCA Retirement Plan qualifies as a 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity plan under the Internal Revenue Code. If you have additional questions after reading this notice, please contact Portico Service Center at 800.352.2876.

You are receiving this notice because all or a portion of a payment you are receiving from the ELCA Retirement Plan (the “Plan”) is eligible to be rolled over to an IRA or an employer plan. This notice is intended to help you decide whether to make such a rollover.

This notice describes the rollover rules that apply to payments from the Plan that are not from a designated Roth account (a type of account with special tax rules in some employer plans).

annuity) or an employer plan (i.e., a tax-qualified plan, section 403(b) plan or governmental section 457(b) plan) that will accept the rollover. The rules of the IRA or employer plan that holds the rollover will determine your investment options, fees, and rights to payment from the IRA or employer plan (e.g., no spousal consent rules apply to IRAs and IRAs may not provide loans). Furthermore, the amount rolled over will become subject to the tax rules that apply to the IRA or employer plan.

Your Rollover Options

Rules that apply to most payments from a plan are described in the General Information About Rollovers section below. Special rules that only apply in certain circumstances are described in the Special Rules and Options section.

General Information About Rollovers

How Can a Rollover Affect My Taxes?

You will be taxed on a payment from the Plan if you do not roll it over. If you are under age 59½ and do not make a rollover, you will also have to pay a 10% additional income tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies). However, if you make a rollover, you will not have to pay tax until you receive payments later and the 10% additional income tax penalty will not apply if those payments are made after you are age 59½ (or if an exception applies).

Where May I Roll Over the Payment?

You may roll over the payment to either an IRA (an individual retirement account or individual retirement

How Do I Make a Rollover?

There are two ways to make a rollover. You can make either a direct rollover or a 60-day rollover.

If you make a direct rollover, the Plan will make the payment directly to your IRA or an employer plan. You should contact the IRA sponsor or the administrator of the employer plan for information on how to make a direct rollover.

If you do not make a direct rollover, you may still make a rollover by making a deposit into an IRA or eligible employer plan that will accept it. You will have 60 days after you receive the payment to make the deposit. If you do not make a direct rollover, the Plan is required to withhold 20% of the payment for federal income taxes. This means that, in order to roll over the entire payment in a 60-day rollover, you must use other funds to make up for the 20% withheld. If you do not roll over the entire amount of the payment, the portion not rolled over will be taxed and will be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions if you are under age 59½ (unless an exception applies).

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How Much May I Roll Over?

You may roll over all or part of the amount eligible for rollover. Any payment from the Plan is eligible for rollover, except:

Certain payments spread over a period of at least 10 years or over your life or life expectancy (or the lives or joint life expectancy of you and your beneficiary)

Required minimum distributions after age 70½ (or after death)

Hardship distributions

Corrective distributions of contributions that exceed tax law limitations

Portico Benefit Services or Xerox HR Solutions (the recordkeeper) can inform you what portion of a payment is eligible for rollover.

If I Don’t Make a Rollover, Will I Have to Pay the 10% Additional Income Tax on Early Distributions?

If you are under age 59½, you will have to pay the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions for any payment from the Plan (including amounts withheld for income tax) that you do not roll over, unless one of the exceptions listed applies. This penalty is in addition to the regular income tax on the payment not rolled over.

The 10% additional income tax penalty does not apply to the following payments from the Plan:

Payments made after you separate from service if you will be at least age 55 in the year of the separation

Payments that start after you separate from service if paid at least annually in equal or nearly equal amounts over your life or life expectancy (or the lives or joint-life expectancy of you and your beneficiary)

Payments made due to disability

Payments made after your death

Corrective distributions of contributions that exceed tax law limits

Payments made directly to the government to satisfy a federal tax levy

Payments made under a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO)

Payments made up to the amount of your deductible medical expenses

Certain payments made while you are on active duty if you were a member of a reserve component called to duty after Sept. 11, 2001, for more than 179 days

If I Make a Rollover to an IRA, Will the 10% Additional Income Tax Apply to Early Distributions from the IRA?

If you receive a payment from an IRA when you are under age 59½, you will have to pay the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions from the IRA, unless an exception applies. In general, the exceptions to the 10% additional income tax for early distributions from an IRA are the same as the exceptions for early distributions from a plan. However, there are a few differences for payments from an IRA, including:

There is no exception for payments after separation from service that are made after age 55.

The exception for QDROs does not apply (although a special rule applies under which, as part of a divorce or separation agreement, a tax-free transfer may

be made directly to an IRA of a spouse or former spouse).

The exception for payments made at least annually in equal or nearly equal amounts over a specified period applies without regard to whether you have separated from service.

There are additional exceptions for (1) payments for qualified higher education expenses (2) payments up to $10,000 used in a qualified first-time home purchase, and (3) payments after you have received unemployment compensation for 12 consecutive weeks (or would have been eligible to receive unemployment except for selfemployed status).

Will I Owe State Income Taxes?

Please contact your state department of revenue or a qualified tax adviser to learn about any state or local income tax rules (including withholding rules).

Special Rules and Options

If Your Payment Includes After-Tax

Contributions

After-tax contributions included in a payment are not taxed. If a payment is only part of your benefit,

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an allocable portion of your after-tax contributions is generally included in the payment. If you have pre-1987 after-tax contributions maintained in a separate account, a special rule may apply to determine whether the after-tax contributions are included in a payment.

You may roll over to an IRA a payment that includes after-tax contributions through either a direct rollover or a 60-day rollover. You must keep track of the aggregate amount of the after-tax contributions in all of your IRAs (in order to determine your taxable income for later payments from the IRAs). If you make a direct rollover of only a portion of the amount paid from the Plan and a portion is paid to you, each of the payments will include an allocable portion of the after-tax contributions. If you make a 60-day rollover to an IRA of only a portion of the payment made to you, the after-tax contributions are treated as a rollover last. For example, assume you are receiving a complete distribution of your benefit, which totals $12,000; of which $2,000 is after-tax contributions. In this case, if you roll over $10,000 to an IRA in a 60-day rollover, no amount is taxable because the $2,000 amount not rolled over is treated as being after-tax contributions.

You may roll over to an employer plan all of a payment that includes after-tax contributions, but only through a direct rollover (and only if the receiving plan separately accounts for after-tax contributions and

is not a governmental section 457(b) plan). You can make a 60-day rollover to an employer plan of part of a payment that includes after-tax contributions, but only up to the amount of the payment that would be taxable if not rolled over.

If You Miss the 60-Day Rollover Deadline

Generally, the 60-day rollover deadline cannot be extended. However, the IRS has the limited authority to waive the deadline under certain extraordinary circumstances (e.g., when external events prevented you from completing the rollover by the 60-day rollover deadline). To apply for a waiver, you must file a private letter ruling request with the IRS. Private letter ruling requests require the payment of a non-refundable user fee. For more information, see IRS Publication 590,

Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs).

If You Were Born On or Before Jan. 1, 1936

If you were born on or before Jan. 1, 1936, and receive a lump-sum distribution that you do not roll over,

special rules for calculating the amount of the tax on the payment might apply to you. For more information, see

IRS Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income.

If You Roll Over Your Payment to a Roth IRA

You can roll over a payment from the Plan to a Roth IRA. If you roll over the payment to a Roth IRA, a special rule applies under which the amount of the payment rolled over (i.e., reduced by any after-tax amounts) will be taxed. However, the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions will not apply (unless you take the amount rolled over out of the Roth IRA within five years, starting from January 1 of the year of the rollover). For payments from the Plan during 2012 that are rolled over to a Roth IRA, the taxable amount can be spread over a two-year period starting in 2013.

If you roll over the payment to a Roth IRA, later qualified distributions from the Roth IRA will not be taxed (including earnings after the rollover). A qualified distribution from a Roth IRA is a payment made after you are age 59½ (or after your death or disability, or as a qualified first-time homebuyer distribution of up to $10,000) and after you have had a Roth IRA for at least five years. In applying this five-year rule, you start from January 1 of the year for which your first contribution was made to a Roth IRA. Non-qualified distributions from the Roth IRA will be taxed to the extent of earnings after the rollover, including the 10% additional income tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies). You do not have to receive required minimum distributions from a Roth IRA during your lifetime. For more information, see IRS Publication 590, Individual

Retirement Arrangements (IRAs).

You cannot roll over a payment from the Plan to a designated Roth account in an employer plan.

If You Are Not a Plan Participant

Payments after death of a participant. If you receive a distribution after a participant’s death that you do not roll over, the distribution will generally be taxed in the same manner described elsewhere in this notice. However, the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions does not apply and the special rule described under the section If You Were Born On or Before Jan. 1, 1936, applies only if the participant was born on or before Jan. 1, 1936.

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If you are a surviving spouse. If you receive a payment from the Plan as the surviving spouse of a deceased participant, you have the same rollover options that the participant would have had, as described in this notice. In addition, if you choose to make a rollover to an IRA, you may treat the IRA as your own or as an inherited IRA.

An IRA you treat as your own is treated like any other IRA of yours, so that payments made to you before you reach age 59½ will be subject to the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions (unless an exception applies) and required minimum distributions from your IRA do not have to start until after you are age 70½.

If you treat the IRA as an inherited IRA, payments from the IRA will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions. However, if the participant began receiving required minimum distributions, you will have to receive required minimum distributions from the inherited IRA. If the participant had not begun receiving required minimum distributions from the Plan, you will not have to start receiving required minimum distributions from the inherited IRA until the year the participant would have reached age 70½.

If you are a surviving beneficiary other than a spouse.

If you receive a payment from the Plan because of the participant’s death and you are a designated beneficiary other than a surviving spouse, the only rollover option you have is to make a direct rollover to an inherited IRA. Eligible rollover distributions from an employer’s plan paid directly to a non-spouse beneficiary are subject

to a mandatory 20% withholding. Payments from the inherited IRA will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions. You must receive required minimum distributions from the inherited IRA.

Payments Under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order

(QDRO). If you are the spouse or former spouse of a participant and you receive a payment from the Plan under a QDRO, you generally have the same options the participant would have (i.e., you may roll over the payment to your own IRA or an eligible employer plan that will accept it). Payments under the QDRO will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax penalty on early distributions.

If You Are a Non-Resident Alien

If you are a non-resident alien and you do not make a direct rollover to a U.S. IRA or U.S. employer plan, instead of withholding 20%, the Plan is generally required to withhold 30% of the payment for federal income taxes. If the amount withheld exceeds the amount of tax you owe (which is possible if you make a 60-day rollover), you may request an income tax refund by filing IRS Form 1040NR and attaching your Form 1042-S. See Form W-8BEN for claiming that you are entitled to a reduced rate of withholding under an income tax treaty. For more information, see also IRS Publication 519, U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens, and IRS Publication 515, Withholding of Tax on Non-Resident

Aliens and Foreign Entitles.

Other Special Rules

If a payment is one in a series of payments for less than 10 years, your choice whether to make a direct rollover will apply to all later payments in the series (unless you make a different choice for later payments).

If your payments for the year are less than $200, the Plan is not required to allow you to make a direct rollover and is not required to withhold for federal income taxes.However, you may make a 60-day rollover.

You may have special rollover rights if you recently served in the U.S. Armed Forces. For more information, see IRS Publication 3, Armed Forces’ Tax Guide.

For More Information

You may wish to consult a professional tax adviser before taking a payment from the Plan. Also, you can find more detailed information on the federal tax treatment of payments from employer plans in: IRS Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income; IRS Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs); and IRS Publication 571, Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plans (403(b) Plans). These publications are available from a local IRS office, at www.irs.gov or by calling 800.TAX.FORM (829.3676).

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WHAT ABOUT?

ELCA RETIREMENT PLAN

What Are Rollovers?

A rollover is a transfer of money from one tax-favored retirement arrangement (e.g., an IRA or other eligible retirement plan) to another tax-favored arrangement. By doing so, you postpone paying taxes on money you transfer (roll over).

Why Roll Money Into the ELCA Retirement Plan?

Experience – Benefit from the extensive investment management experience provided by Portico Benefit Services and other well-known investment managers.

Choice – The ELCA Retirement Plan’s 20 investment funds provide a broad range of investment options, including social purpose funds.

Personal service – Our professional staff know and understand the unique needs of our members.

Growth – No sales commissions means your account may grow faster.

Simplicity – Put all your retirement savings in one place — one you know and trust. Receive one statement for all your retirement savings.

Clergy housing allowance exclusion – Only money distributed from a church retirement plan can be designated as eligible for clergy housing allowance exclusion. You lose this option if you roll over money into a non-church plan.

When Can I Roll Over Money from Another Plan to My ELCA Retirement Account?

You can roll over money from your traditional IRA or other eligible pretax retirement accounts to this plan at any time.

What Types of Money can be Rolled Over to My ELCA Retirement Account?

The ELCA Retirement Plan accepts pretax rollovers of at least $200 from:

Traditional IRAs

401(k) plans

403(b) plans

Governmental 457(b) plans

Other ELCA retirement plans (i.e., the ELCA Master Institutional Retirement Plan or the ELCA Retirement Plan for The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society)

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Contact Information

Portico Service Center

800 Marquette Ave., Ste. 1050

Minneapolis, MN 55402-2892

800.352.2876 / 612.333.7651 F 612.334.5399

mail@PorticoBenefits.org

www.PorticoBenefits.org

Hours

7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Central) Monday – Friday

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WHAT ARE ROLLOVERS

The money you roll over to the ELCA Retirement Plan cannot be a:

Required minimum distribution

Hardship withdrawal

Part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments

Rolling Money Into Other Retirement Plans

How your money is withdrawn can affect your taxes, how long the money remaining in your ELCA Retirement Plan account will last and your housing allowance exclusion (if you are a pastor). We encourage you to consult a tax adviser regarding your unique situation.

When am I Eligible to Make a Rollover from My Retirement Account?

In limited circumstances you can make distributed from your account and roll the money to another eligible retirement arrangement before separating from service. Withdrawals are allowed if you are:

Under age 59½ and totally and permanently disabled as defined by the Internal Revenue Service

Age 59½ or over

Retired or

Separated from service

You can make rollovers from the following types of money at any time:

Rollover contributions

Clergy housing equity contributions

Pre-2003 additional employer contributions

Withdrawals are permitted in the case of financial hardship, but these withdrawals cannot be rolled over. Likewise, required minimum distributions after age 70½ are not eligible for rollover.

What Types of Money can be Rolled Over From My ELCA Retirement Account?

Once eligible, you can generally roll over:

Up to 100% of any member pretax contributions plus earnings

Up to 100% of any contributions plus earnings rolled into your account from another retirement plan

Up to 100% of housing equity contributions plus earnings

Up to 100% of pre-2003 additional employer contributions

Up to 20% per year of the total employer balance (including earnings) on the prior December 31, or $20,000, if greater

Contact Portico Benefit Services for details on your specific situation.

Timing

A request to roll money into other retirement plans may take up to 15 business days to process once the completed request is received.

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How do I Make a Rollover Into or Out of My Retirement Plan?

There are two types of rollovers, each with different tax issues.

Direct rollover – If you make a direct rollover, the custodian of the account issues a check payable to the successor plan and sends it to you, unless you provide complete mailing information for the trustee or custodian of the successor plan. No tax is due at the time money is withdrawn from the original account if it is rolled over directly to the IRA or other retirement arrangement. NOTE: Check with the plan’s administrator or custodian before making a direct rollover. Not all retirement plans accept rollovers.

Indirect rollover – This is also referred to as a 60-day rollover. If you make an indirect rollover, the custodian of the account sends the payment as a check payable to you. You have 60 days after receiving the payment to make the deposit into the IRA or other eligible retirement arrangement. Because this is not a direct rollover, the custodian of the account is generally required to withhold 20% of the payment for federal income taxes. This means, to roll over the entire payment in 60 days, you must use other money to make up for the 20% withheld. NOTE: If you do not roll over the entire amount, the portion not rolled over may be taxed and may, in most situations, be subject to a 10% additional income tax on early distributions if you are under age 59½.

Contact the IRA sponsor or the administrator of the original retirement plan for information on how to make a direct or indirect rollover to

its plan.

If I Roll Money Over to an IRA, Are Subsequent Distributions from the IRA Taxable if used for Housing?

In general, amounts withdrawn from the IRA may be subject to income tax for both clergy and lay employees. That means the potential benefit of the clergy housing allowance exclusion from federal gross income may be lost once the money is rolled out of the ELCA plan because generally only amounts distributed from a church retirement plan can be designated as eligible for clergy housing allowance. Consult with your tax adviser for more specific information.

For Tax Information

The IRS can provide more tax information on the federal tax treatment of payments from retirement plans. Visit www.irs.gov or call 800.TAX.FORM (829.3676).

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WHAT ARE ROLLOVERS

If I Roll Over Money Out of the ELCA Retirement Plan Into Another Plan, Can I Later Roll the Money Back to the ELCA Retirement Plan?

Yes. An amount rolled out of the ELCA Retirement Plan can be rolled back into the ELCA plan at any time, as long as it is an eligible rollover distribution. Likewise, other IRA, tax sheltered annuity (TSA) or 401(k) accounts can be rolled into the plan. Rolling your other retirement account balances into the plan enables you to use the distribution options of the ELCA Retirement Plan for all of your retirement assets.

For More Information

See the Summary Plan Description for the ELCA Retirement Plan for more details on rollovers. It is available at www.myPortico.PorticoBenefits.org or

by contacting the Portico Service Center.

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ELCA RETIREMENT PLAN

Withdrawal Request

You are eligible to request a withdrawal from the ELCA Retirement Plan if you are:

Age 59½ or older, or

Disabled, according to §72(m)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code, or

Separated from service or retired. (NOTE: If you recently terminated employment, you must wait 30 days from your termination of employment date to receive any payment from the ELCA Retirement Plan.)

If you have questions about whether you are eligible to request a withdrawal, please contact our Service Center at 800.352.2876.

AYour Personal Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legal Name (First)

 

MI

 

Last

Social Security Number

 

 

Member ID

I am:

Single

Married (spousal signature may be needed in Section E)

Divorced

Widowed

BRequest a Type of Payment and Distribution Method

1 Type of Payment (check [4] one)

One-time payment in the amount of $______________(minimum amount is $250) or ______ % of my account.

Periodic payments in the amount of $______________ (minimum amount is $250 per the frequency checked below)

Frequency (check [4] one)

Monthly Quarterly Semiannually

This request is (check [4] one)

For a new periodic payment

To change my existing periodic payment

Annually

Payment start date ________ / ___________ (MM/YYYY)

Total number of payments _________ or

continue until account balance is zero

I understand it is my responsibility to complete a new withdrawal form if a change in amount is needed or if a change of money type is needed for payments to continue.

I understand payments will continue until my account balance is zero or I have received the number of payments indicated.

NOTE: Periodic payments are processed the third Tuesday of the month. Requests for periodic payments must be received by the fifth of the month for the first payment to be transferred into your account or mailed to you by the end of the month. Incomplete forms will delay processing.

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BRequest a Type of Payment and Distribution Method – Continued

2Distribution Method (check [4] one)

I would like the payment sent to me by check.

I would like to receive my withdrawal by direct deposit* to the account indicated below.

Name of Bank

 

Phone Number

 

Account Number

Checking

Savings

City

State

ZIP Code

Bank Routing Number

*I understand it is my responsibility to confirm with my bank that it will accept direct deposits (i.e., electronic funds transfers) to the account type and bank routing number indicated above. I have attached a voided check (for checking account) or savings account deposit slip to this form. I understand a withdrawal request not including a voided check or deposit slip will not be processed. (Direct deposits are deposited within three to five business days of payment date.)

I would like a direct rollover to my other eligible retirement plan.

(The check will be made payable to the successor plan and sent to you, unless you provide complete mailing information below.)

Company Name

 

Product Name

 

 

 

Product type:

 

 

 

 

Fixed Annuity

Variable Annuity

Market Value Annuity

Equity Index Annuity

 

Immediate Annuity

Mutual Fund

CD

Brokerage

 

Other ______________________________________________________________________

 

Check [4] one of the following if you are rolling your money to an annuity:

New Annuity

Existing Annuity

Account Number _______________________________________

Plan type:

 

 

 

Traditional IRA (including Rollover and SEP)

Roth IRA

Simple IRA

Inherited IRA

 

403(b)

457(b) Plan

401(a) Plan

 

Tax-Sheltered Annuity (TSA)

 

Tax-Sheltered Custodial Account (TSCA)

Other _____________________________________________________

Delivery Instructions

Make Check Payable to

Mail to

Address

 

 

City

State

ZIP Code

NOTE: Your rollover request may take up to 15 business days to process once your completed form is received at Xerox HR Solutions. Any amount not directly rolled over to an eligible plan generally will be subject to 20% federal income tax withholding, as well as state income tax withholding if required. If you are a pastor, see Section D.

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CIndicate Money Type for Withdrawal

If you do not indicate a money type, your withdrawal will be processed pro rata from all eligible money types.

1 Employer Contributions

$ __________________or ___________ %

If you do not make a selection or have entered too high an amount, we will distribute the annual 20% employer limit to you. Check the following option if this withdrawal request is for the annual maximum amount.

Maximum of 20% of my total employer amount on the prior December 31 or $20,000, if greater

2 Other Types of Money

 

All eligible types of money listed below

$ __________________or ___________ %

You may also request a withdrawal by selecting specific money types below. You may receive more than one check for your withdrawal due to system processing constraints.

Pretax retirement contributions

$

__________________or ___________ %

Rollover money

$

__________________or ___________ %

Housing equity money (if a pastor)

$

__________________or ___________ %

Predecessor plan IRA

$

__________________or ___________ %

Pre-2003 additional employer money (if a lay employee)

$

__________________or ___________ %

Foreign missionary after tax

$

__________________or ___________ %

DFederal Tax Withholding Election – For Pastors Only

NOTE: If you are a pastor or former pastor and do not check the box below, 20% will be withheld for federal tax.

I do not want 20% federal income tax withheld from my payment.

I certify my entire distribution will be excluded from my gross income and used as housing allowance and, therefore, is not subject to the 20% federal tax withholding requirement. I understand it is my responsibility to meet the Internal Revenue Service guidelines on the housing allowance exclusion, and Portico Benefit Services is not responsible for any withholding tax penalties or interest that may be assessed by the IRS. Depending on my tax status, I may owe additional taxes on any part of my distribution not excluded from federal income as housing allowance.

ESpousal Consent (Complete only if you are married and your request is for more than $20,000.)

I hereby consent to the withdrawal requested by my spouse (the member) on this form. I understand this withdrawal will reduce my spouse’s retirement account balance and, therefore, the amount to be paid as a death benefit to me and/or any other designated beneficiary if my spouse dies. I understand my consent is irrevocable.

 

 

 

Signature of Spouse (Required, if Applicable)

 

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)

 

Certificate of Notary

 

 

State of

County of

Signed or Attested Before Me on (MM/DD/YYYY)

By (Print Name of Spouse)

Signature of Notary

My Commission Expires (MM/DD/YYYY)

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FMember Signature

I certify that:

I have received the Special Tax Notice Regarding Plan Payments.

I understand I can review the Summary Plan Description for the ELCA Retirement Plan and Your Guide to Investing for Retirement & Investment Fund Descriptions atPorticoBenefits.org by signing in to myPortico if I need more information.

If I am recently separated from service, I understand I must wait 30 days from my termination of employment date to receive any payment from the ELCA Retirement Plan.

I waive the 30-day notice period that restricts me from receiving any payment or rollover from the ELCA Retirement Plan until at least 30 days after I have received the Special Tax Notice Regarding Plan Payments and direct the record keeper to proceed with processing my payment or rollover. (This does not waive the 30-day restriction in the bullet above.)

I understand that any amount not directly rolled over will be subject to 20% federal income tax withholding and any applicable state tax withholding, unless I am a pastor or former pastor and have requested no federal tax withholding in Section D.

I understand it is my responsibility to notify the record keeper if a change in amount is needed or if a change of money type is needed for periodic payments to continue.

My spouse has signed Section E of this form if I am married and my request is more than $20,000.

Signature of Member (Required)

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)

Mail or fax this form to our record keeper at the address below. Mailing it to Portico Benefit Services will delay the processing of your withdrawal.

For regular mail:

ELCA Retirement Plans

P.O. Box 199717

Dallas, TX 75219-9666

For overnight delivery:

ELCA Retirement Plans

2828 N Haskell Ave Bldg 5

Mail Stop 516

Dallas, TX 75204-2909

F 973.837.3330

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