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petitioner’s biweekly payroll checks through July 8, 2005. Each
biweekly payment was to be $143.59.2
By letter dated June 12, 2000, petitioner was offered a
position in another operating division of GE, GE Sports Lighting
Systems, L.P. (GE Lighting). Petitioner accepted this position
and began working at GE Lighting in the last week of June. In
July 2000, petitioner changed his residence from Texarkana,
Texas, to North Richland Hills, Texas, in order to be closer to
his workplace.
By letter dated August 18, 2000, the GE Railcar benefits
administrator notified GE Investment Retirement Services that
petitioner’s employment with GE Railcar had been terminated and
that he had changed his mailing address. The address listed in
this notification was the address of GE Lighting: “8713 Airport
Freeway Suite 104, North Star Plaza, N. Richland Hills, TX
76180”. Petitioner’s quarterly retirement account statements
were sent to this address from September 2000 through March 2001.
In December 2000, GE Lighting changed to a different suite in the
same building, resulting in a change in petitioner’s employment
address. Petitioner’s new address was not correctly recorded by
the GE Railcar plan, causing petitioner’s quarterly statements
2The promissory note that petitioner signed in order to
obtain the loan states that petitioner “further agrees that the
loan is subject to the loan provisions contained in the Plan”.
These provisions are not in the evidentiary record in this case.
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