Termination date and Accrual of benefit

[flosfur]

A calendar yr plan's entry dates are 1/1 & 7/1.

A participant who was eligible to enter on 07/01/04 terminated on that date with 1,040 hours of credited service. Hours required for benefit accrual are 1,000.

Assuming, he worked on 07/01/04, does the participant accrue a benefit under the plan?

I think he does.

[Blinky the 3-eyed Fish]

Can you think of a reason why he wouldn't?

[could be me maybe not]

Could it be that he failed to make mandatory employee contributions, fishy?

[david rigby]

Aside from the unlikely plan provision of EE contributions, it seems even more unlikely that the participant failed to make "mandatory contributions" prior to the date of participation.