# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S814
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED SYNODICAL HANDBOOK.
members whose salary-paying organization, or organ-
izations, did participate, and is not to exceed $150
for members whose organizations did not participate,
provided that in the case of a member or his organiza-
tion deferring the taking of membership such benefit
will be reduced at the rate of $25 for each year of
delayed membership; but in no case shall the reduced

amount be less than $100. A like reduction shall appl

in the case of any year of membership during whi
the required contributions of the member or of his
participating organization were not paid in full, For
those who remit from October 1, 1988, the $25 for not
participating during the first year shall not be de-
ducted, but the death benefit shall not become opera-
tive until six months after entry, except for workers
who have joined three months after becoming eligible.
In the case of candidates the circumstances bringing
about the delay shall be taken in consideration with
a view to removing the reduction. _

B. 1. Old-Age Benefit. A worker retiring at the age

of 65 or over shall be granted a free subsidy for life
to increase his earned pension annuity to the amount
of $480 a year, and that of his widow to $240 a year
without being required to submit the customary appli-
cation for support, provided that the worker has been
active in Synod for not fewer than 25 years and that
his widow was married to him for at least ten years
prior to his retirement.
- 2, A corresponding reduction of the worker’s and
widow’s subsidy is to be made if the worker failed
to join within three months after he became eligible
for membership or if his salary-paying organization
participated not at all or only in part. If this income
does not provide for the reasonable needs, the Board
of Support and Pensions shall supplement the annu-
ities after the regular application has been submitted
and according to the current rates.

C. The Fiscal Conference is authorized and in-
structed to make the necessary appropriations for the
death benefit and the old-age subsidy.

759. Status of Workers Leaving Service

A. Workers leaving the service of Synod or any
component part thereof before the retirement age and
not because of disability shall retain the right to with-
drawal of all payments made by them under the
provision of Section 753, AD, and the interest thereon,
However, by leaving the service of Synod they auto-
matically relinquish all claims under the operation of
Sections 755 and 757. Such workers’ accumulation
under Section 753, E—J, shall be transferred to, and
become a part of, the Contingent Fund (Sec. 751, B).

B. A worker leaving the service before retirement
and not because of total disability and remaining
eligible for, and intending to accept again, a call with-
in the Synod, may discontinue the payments under
Section 753, A—D, until he is called back into service.

is personal accumulation is to remain in the custody
of the Board until it becomes evident that his return

“into office is no longer to -be expected. When. the

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