Withdrawals on Account of Hardship. (a) If the Employer has so elected in the Plan Agreement, upon a Participant's written request (or in such other manner as shall be made available and agreed upon by the Employer and Putnxx), xhe Plan Administrator may permit a withdrawal of funds from the vested portion of the Participant's Accounts on account of the Participant's financial hardship, which must be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Plan Administrator, provided, that no hardship withdrawal shall be made from a Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account or Qualified Matching Account. In considering such requests, the Plan Administrator shall apply uniform standards that do not discriminate in favor of Highly Compensated Employees. If hardship withdrawals are permitted from more than one of the Elective Deferral Account, Rollover Account, Employer Matching Account, and Employer Contribution Account, they shall be made first from a Participant's Elective Deferral Account, then from his Rollover Account, then from his Employer Matching Account, and finally from his Employer Contribution Account, as applicable. A withdrawn amount may not be repaid to the Plan.
Withdrawals on Account of Hardship. A Member who is an Employee and who has obtained all distributions and withdrawals (including distributions of ESOP dividends under section 404(k) of the Code but not Hardship distributions) and all nontaxable loans then available under all plans maintained by the Controlled Group (including, without limitation, any qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plan and any cash or deferred arrangement that is part of a cafeteria plan (other than mandatory employee contributions under a welfare plan or pension plan)), may request, on a form provided by and filed with the Committee, a withdrawal on account of Hardship of all or a part of his Vested Interest in the following Sub-Accounts: Rollover Contributions Sub-Account, Before-Tax Contributions Sub-Account (excluding any earnings allocated thereto), Matching Employer Contributions Sub-Account, Transitional Employer Contributions Sub-Account, Prior ESOP Contributions Sub-Account and Weartech Prior Matching Contributions Sub-Account. Upon making a determination that the Member is entitled to a withdrawal on account of Hardship, the Committee shall direct the Trustee to distribute to such Member the amount requested and charge the amount of the withdrawal to the Member’s Sub-Accounts in the order set forth in the preceding sentence, provided, however, that the amount of the withdrawal shall not be in excess of the amount necessary to alleviate such Hardship. If a withdrawal on account of Hardship is made by a Member pursuant to this Subsection, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan (or any other plan maintained by the Controlled Group) to the contrary, the Member’s Before-Tax Contributions to the Plan (or any comparable contributions to any other plan maintained by the Controlled Group, including, without limitation, any non-qualified deferred compensation plan, any cash or deferred arrangement that is part of a cafeteria plan (other than mandatory employee - 66 - contributions under a welfare plan or pension plan) and any stock option, stock purchase or similar plan) shall be suspended for a period of 6 months following receipt of the Hardship withdrawal. A Member who has made a withdrawal pursuant to this Section and who desires to resume having Before-Tax Contributions made for him may do so, as of any Valuation Date after the expiration of the suspension period specified in this Section, if he is then an Eligible Employee and he again enrolls as a contributing Member pursuant to Sections 2...
Withdrawals on Account of Hardship. A Participant whose Termination Date has not yet occurred may elect to withdraw all or part of his Pre-Tax Contributions on account of financial
