Creating QDRO-Specific Definitions

You may need to use different definitions for the original employee and the alternate payee. The difference is based not on different plan rules, but on the fact that for the employee's benefit, the original employee's own age is used, whereas for the alternate payee's benefit, the alternate payee's age is generally not used.

You handle this requirement through the system's grouping capabilities. Your function result might look like this:

Group Criteria	Definition
Regular employees	6 percent per year from employee's age (BIRTH_DT) 65 to 60
QDRO alternate payees	6 percent per year from original employee's age (QDRO_EE_BD) 65 to 60