# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S812
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED SYNODICAL HANDBOOK

and boards for that respective year, subject to the
requirements as to the payment of his own contribu-
tion for that year. (Section 753, paragraph E.)

H. All contributions are to be made monthly, quar-
terly, semiannually, or annually in advance.

I. Any congregation or board may also at any time
make payments in addition to the required contri-
butions. which are to be credited in full to the respec-
tive individual accounts, provided that all required
contributions have been made in full on account of
such workers.

J. Female workers and men under contract shall
excluded from ‘the socialized allocations. Their

755. Benefits of the Pension Plan

A. The worker, upon his retirement, after attaining

the age of sixty-five years (or later), or in the event
of total and Presumably permanent disability prior to
attaining the age of sixty-five, shall receive an annuity

Boards which he has_ been. Serving (753, para-
graphs E—J). Such accumulation shall be applied to
provide an annuity for the worker and his widow and
his orphaned children under seventeen years of age
or up to eighteen years of age if the child is attending
school, according to the tables adopted by the Board.

B. Retirement shall be construed as the giving up
of a pastorate, office, or position by a worker having
attained the age of sixty-five years or being com-
Pelled to resign on account of total and presumably
permanent disability and the termination of a salary

proof of continued disability from time to time, by
a competent physician chosen by the Board. If the
disabled worker recovers sufficiently to resume active
work, he must inform the Board immediately, and the
Board may reduce or terminate his disability pension
and require him and. his congregation or board to
resume the contributions.
C. The annuity of a widow whose husband at the
of his death was receiving an annuity shall be
an amount equivalent to 50 per cent of her husband’s
annuity, except as provided in Section 755, F,

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