Paying Benefits

If you die while you're covered under the Life Insurance Plan, benefits will be paid as a lump sum to the beneficiary you have on file with the Administrative Office.

You may choose anyone you wish to be your beneficiary, and you may change your designation at any time. If you haven't named a beneficiary, or if your beneficiary doesn't survive you, the Life Insurance Plan may pay:

• Up to $500 of your benefit toward any party responsible for your burial expenses;
• The executors or administrators of your estate; or
• Your surviving relatives in the following order: your spouse, your children, your parents.

If your beneficiary is a minor without a legal guardian, the benefit may be paid to the person who is caring for and supporting him/her.