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ARTICLE Ill CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PLAN 3.1 SALARY REDIRECTION Benefits under the Plan shall be financed by Salary Redirections sufficient to support Benefits that a Participant has elected hereunder and to pay the Participant's Premium Expenses. The salary administration program of the Employer shall be revised to allow each Participant to agree to reduce his pay during a Plan Year by an amount determined necessary to purchase the elected Benefit Options. The amount of such Salary Redirection shall be specified in the Salary Redirection Agreement and shall be applicable for a Plan Year. Notwithstanding the above. for new Participants, the Salary Redirection Agreement shall only be applicable from the first day of the pay period following the Employee's entry date up to and including the last day of the Plan Year. These contributions shall be converted to Cafeteria Plan Benefit Dollars and allocated to the funds or accounts established under the Plan pursuant to the Participants' elections made under Article IV. Any Salary Redirection shall be determined prior to the beginning of a Plan Year (subject to initial elections pursuant to Section S.1) and prior to the end of the Election Period and shall be irrevocable for such Plan Year. However, a Participant may revoke a Benefit election or a Salary Redirection Agreement after the Plan Year has commenced and make a new election with respect to the remainder of the Plan Year, if both the revocation and the new election are on account of and consistent with a change in status and such other permitted events as determined under Article V of the Plan and consistent with the rules and regulations of the Department of the Treasury. Salary Redirection amounts shall be contributed on a pro rata basis for each pay period during the Plan Year. All individual Salary Redirection Agreements are deemed to be part of this Plan and incorporated by reference hereunder. 3.2 APPLICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS As soon as reasonably practical after each payroll period. the Employer shall apply the Salary Redirection to provide the Benefits elected by the affected Participants. Any contribution made or withheld for the Health Flexible Spending Account or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account shall be credited to such fund or account. Amounts designated for the Participant's Premium Expense Reimbursement Account shall likewise be credited to such account for the purpose of paying Premium Expenses. 3.3 PERIODIC CONTRIBUTIONS Notwithstanding the requirement provided above and in other Articles of this Plan that Salary Redirections be contributed to the Plan by the Employer on behalf of an Employee on a level and pro rata basis for each payroll period. the Employer and Administrator may implement a procedure in Hfiich Salary Redirections are contributed throughout the Plan Year on a periodic basis that is not pro rata for each payroll period. However. with regard to the Health Flexible Spending Account the payment schedule for the required contributions may not be based on the rate or amount of reimbursements during the Plan Year. ARTICLE IV BENEFITS 4.1 BENEFIT OPTIONS Each Participant may elect any one or more of the following optional Benefits: (1) Health Flexible Spending Account (2) Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (3) Insurance Premium Payment Plan (i) Health Insurance Benefit (ii) Dental Insurance Benefit (iii) Cancer Insurance Benefit (iv) Vision Insurance Benefit (v) Other Insurance Benefit (4) Health Savings Account Benefit 4.2 HEALTH FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNT BENEFIT Each Participant may elect to participate in the Health Flexible Spending Account option, in which case Article VI shall apply.