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§ 2530.203-3 Suspension of pension benefits upon employment. URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/section-2530.203-3 Citation: 29 CFR 2530.203-3 This section sets forth the circumstances and conditions under which such benefit payments may be suspended. A plan may provide for the suspension of pension benefits which commence prior to the attainment of normal retirement age, or for the suspension of that portion of pension benefits which exceeds the normal retirement benefit, or both, for any reemployment and without regard to the provisions of section 203(a)(3)(B) and this regulation to the extent (but only to the extent) that suspension of such benefits does not affect a retiree's entitlement to normal retirement benefits payable after attainment of normal retirement age, or the actuarial equivalent thereof. Retirement plans seem drafted to encourage distributions occur only under controlled circumstances. Therefore, individuals who resume employment would seem helpful, as these persons have established an alternate source of income. Therefore, allowing distributions to continue, if against the prerogative of these individuals, seems counterintuitive. To present an analogy, individuals who decide to reduce the sodium/salt intake of their diet, receiving as gifts saltshakers, which do contain salt. The individuals do not request and would prefer not to receive these saltshakers, yet the saltshakers still arrive containing salt.