Signatureless Qualified Domestic Relations Orders. Plan Sponsor’s approved model form of QDRO for the Plan is attached to this Schedule. Plan Sponsor Directs and authorizes Empower to treat as qualified each QDRO received by Empower in good order using the model QDRO form, or a form that is similar in all material respects to the model QDRO form. Plan Sponsor Directs Empower to process the QDRO, without Plan Sponsor’s further approval, by establishing a separate account for the alternate payee or making a lump sum distribution to the alternate payee. Plan Sponsor Directs Empower to send a copy of each QDROconfirmation or rejection letter to Plan Sponsor. Plan Sponsor f urther Directs Empower to process, without Plan Sponsor’s f urther approval, all requests, received in good order and in a manner acceptable to Empower, f or distributions f rom alternate payee accounts established before or af ter the Schedule Effective Date. Plan Sponsor Directs Empower to calculate any alternate payee’s QDROamount based solely on the Participant’s account records on Empower’s recordkeeping system, and to reject any QDRO that specifies a valuation date prior to the Schedule Effective Date. Plan Sponsor f urther Directs Empower to process, without the Plan Sponsor’s f urther approval, distribution requests received in good order and in a manner acceptable to Empower, with respect to alternate payee accounts established before the Schedule Effective Date pursuant to QDROs previously processed by Empower. The Plan Sponsor Directs Empower to calculate any alternate payee’s QDRO amount based solely on the Participant’s account records on Empower’s recordkeeping system, and to reject any QDRO that specifies a valuation date prior to the Schedule Effective Date. Plan Sponsor agrees to make determinations with respect to any orders received that are not materially similar to the model QDRO form for reasons other than the inclusion of a valuation date that precedes the Schedule Effective Date.
