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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Sep 27, 2008
Entitles to a one-time lump sum payment any persons (affected participants) who: (1) retired from active employment at one of the gaseous diffusion plants of the U.S. Enrichment Corporation (USEC) on or before USEC's privatization date as vested participants in a pension plan maintained either by USEC's operating contractor or by a contractor employed before July 1, 1993, by the Department of Energy to operate a gaseous diffusion plant; or (2) are employed by USEC's operating contractor on or before the privatization date, and are vested participants in such a pension plan.
Prescribes a formula for determination of the payment.
Allows any affected participant to treat such payment as a rollover contribution to a regular individual retirement account (IRA) or a Roth IRA.
Prescribes hearing and judicial review rights for any affected participant who may have been prejudiced by any decision with regard to such a payment.
People & committees
Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1] · R–KY
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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