Notice to Freeze the Plan's Funding Status

This document is about a notice from the United Food and Commercial Workers Regional Pension Fund to the Department of Labor regarding their election to freeze the plan's funding status for the plan year beginning October 1, 2008. The notice explains that this election applies only to the current plan year and that if the fund is certified to be in endangered or critical status in the next plan year, the fund's board of trustees will have to take steps to improve the funded situation, which may include increases in employer contributions and reductions in future benefit accruals.