You can become a Plan member in one of three ways:
- You have 24 months of vesting service without a six calendar month period with no contributions (this is the way most musicians become members), OR
- If you have your first contribution made on your behalf after December 31, 2000, you will become a Plan member on the first day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which you have 700 hours of covered employment or covered earnings equal to or greater than 35% of the Year’s Maximum Pensionable Earnings ,OR
- If the first contribution made on your behalf was before January 1, 2001, the date when you become a Plan member depends on several things. These include the date the first contributions to the Plan were made for you and whether your work was done as a musician or not. Please contact the Fund Office for more information.