29 CFR § 4022.101 - When do these rules apply?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t29/s4022.101"
source: "ecfr"
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title: "29 CFR § 4022.101 - When do these rules apply?"
title_number: 29
title_name: "Labor"
section_number: "4022.101"
section_name: "When do these rules apply?"
chapter_name: "PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "COVERAGE AND BENEFITS"
part_number: "4022"
part_name: "BENEFITS PAYABLE IN TERMINATED SINGLE-EMPLOYER PLANS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "29 U.S.C. 1302, 1322, 1322b, 1341(c)(3)(D), and 1344."
regulatory_source: "61 FR 34028, July 1, 1996, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "4022"
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# 4022.101 When do these rules apply?

(a) *In general.* These rules (§§ 4022.101 through 4022.104) apply only if you die—

(1) *Required payments for future periods.* Without having received all required payments for future periods under a form of annuity promising that, regardless of a participant's death, there will be annuity payments for a certain period of time (e.g., a certain-and-continuous annuity) or until a certain amount is paid (e.g., a cash-refund annuity or installment-refund annuity);

(2) *No surviving beneficiary.* Without a surviving beneficiary designated to receive the payments described in paragraph (a)(1) of this section; and

(3) *Time of death.* (i) On or after the date we take over your plan (as trustee); or

(ii) Before the date we take over your plan, to the extent that, by that date, the plan administrator has not paid any required payments for future periods.

(b) *Effect of plan or will.* These rules apply even if there is a contrary provision in a plan or will.

(c) *Payments owed at time of death.* See §§ 4022.91 through 4022.95 for rules that apply to benefits we may owe you at the time of your death, such as a correction for monthly underpayments.