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Answers to your questions from IP's Benefits specialists 

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On the day of sale, do our bensAts wad with EP that day, or is them a 

gsaee period? 

Salaried Reaponnr- Medical and dental benefits end on the last day of the 

month in which yaw last day of active employment occurs. Health care 

spending accounts, dependent day care spending accounts and disability 

coverage end on your last day of active employment. Basic life insurance 

has a 31-day grace period and can be converted to an individual policy. 

Optional life insurance can be continued under your individual OUL policy 

with MetLife. Savings contributions and pension accruals end on your last 

day of active employment. Medical coverage , dental coverage and health can spending accounts can be continued 

under COBRA. Hourly Responno-This will determined by effects bargaining. 

What is the situation for the IF medical spending reimbursement account? u for example, we opted to pat 

$500 in the 2001 medical reimbursement account, can we get reimbursed for the full $500 if ft's spent by 

the end of January, ar use we oily get reimbursed for what we actually contributed during the month of 

January? 

What will happen to vacation for 2001? 

Does retirement go with the now company or stay with Drl 

Published Daffy for Employees of Hamilton S Street Complex 

Monday, January 22, 2001 

Total month-to~date OSHA Recordable Injuries through 1/21/01: 0 

Consecutive days and hours without an OSHA Recordable Injury through 1/21/01 : 24 120,000 hours 

consecutive days and hours without a lost-time injury through 1/21/01 : 48 days 0,000 hours 

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PAPER (;UP5 Safely "amness 

LIVE BY THE GOAL: 'NO ONE GETS HURT.' 

Wednesday 

SMART Papers CEO Sad Terry 

will make his first visit to the 

Hamilton Mill Wednesday. A 

tour of the Mill will be on his 

i schedule, so let's make sure 

everything is in tip-top shape 

i to welcome him. 

SMART Papers CEO m visit MIN 

Salaried Response - The $500 in your account is available as of January 1, 2001 . Any medical expenses incurred 

through date of sake up to $500 can be reimbursed from your account. Sourly Reopen" - Not applicable. Hourly 

employees do not have health care spending accounts . 

If not hind by Smart Papers, IF will pay you for any unused vacation time. If hired by Smart Papers, any unused 

vacation your had with IF can be taken as vacation with Smart Papers. 

Your vested pension, if any, remains payable from the IF plan. 

in my pension sofa? 

Yes, your pension is safe. You will be entitled to your vested benefit accrued under the IF plan as of date of sale. 

Assets to fund your pension are held in a well-funded trust. 

What happens to IF retires medical caYwrags? 

Employees who have met the age and service requirements for retiree medical coverage as of the date of sale (age 55 

with 10 years of service) will retain their eligibility for retiree medical bandits from the IF plan whenever they elect to 

retire . This eligibility remains regardless of empkryment with Smart Papers. 

If an employee retires now, is he/she still eligible to submit the application for re-hire with Smart papers? 

An employee who terminates employment before the date of sale, may elect to retire . He or she may apply for 

employment with Smart Papers or any other company. Please remember, an employee who terminates employment 

before the date of sale is not eligible for severance under any IF plan. In accordance with the Retirement Plan 

provisions . an employee who continues as an IF employee through the date of We, and then takes a job with Smart 

Papers, cannot commence his or her pension until them is a termination of employment with Smart Papers. 

Smarted Rssponae - International Paper intends to offer career transition and outplacement services to those 

salaried employees riot ofitlrvd employment with. the buyer, and we will provide details as soon as possible. Sourly 

Meetings scheduled this week for hourly retirement-eligible employees 

In order to facilitate requests for retirement figures, Human Resources will have available individualised packets for all 

retirement-eligible hourly employees cage 55 and older as of January 31, 2001, with at last 10 years of service). 

InfmrnLt, .na] meetings ill be held for re i ment- sibl hourly employe" remudinn reri ,rn ent benefits on 

January 25 and 26 (Thursday and Friday), at 6 p.m. in the Communications Center. The individualised packets will be 

stributed at them informational meetings. Employees and spouses are invited to attend either meeting. It is not 

,cessary to schedule in advance. 

Please note: the Communications Center is not handicap-accessible . Anyone needing assistance or special 

arrangements to attend a meeting should contact Curtis Manses at 4642. Anyone unable to attend a meeting who 

would still like to receive a packet may pick it up in Human Resources beginningimYrfr. MoA1p", .1qN . x29, 

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Published Daily for Employees of Hamilton H Street Complex 

Tuesday. January 23, 2001 ;t 

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More Q&A on transition 

LIVE BY THE GOAL: 'NO ONE GETS HURT.' 

TOW mach-m-date OSHA Recordable Injuries through 1/22/01: 0 

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hats without an OSHA Recordable Injury 1/22/01: 25 days, 125,000 hours 

and hours without a lost-time injury 1 / 2/01 : 49 days - 245,000 house 

Dan Maheu on LOA to work on SMART tran 

Effectively immediately. Dan Maheu will be on temporary lave of 

absence from International Paper to more fully wist SMART Papers LLC 

in the transition to a new company. I will continue to be responsible for 

the overall busiaem while Joe Bergeron will amounts responsibility for 

manufacturing operations and will report to me. All approvals which 

previously required Dan's authorisation should be directed to me. 

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SMART Papers CEO to 

visit Mill tomorrow 

SMART Papers CEO Bud 

Tony of Sin Capital 

Partners will make his first 

visit to the Hamilton Mill 

Wednesday. A tour of the 

Mill will be on his 

schedule, so let's make 

sure everything is in tip-top 

shape to welcome him. 

/Note: The feat question tugs included in the inflial group published in Ctipa January 10. If has been repeated 

because there has been a great deal of mteraat.l 

Q. How does the sale affect my Savl op Plan; when as I scow my scent"; will there continue to be a 

401X offered in my hematite paotsge If I am offered employment ; whoa doss the oompauy-match 

portion with IP atop; I have a ban epfmat my 401X, what provisions ass there for repayment? 

As of the date of sale, all savings plan accounts are 100 percent vested . There will be no further employee 

or company contributions after the date of sale . 

Following the sale, you may take a distribution of your savings plan account, leave your savings plan 

account in the IP plan until a later state, or transfer the taxable portion of your savings plan account to an 

IRA or other employees savings plan. 

If you have an outstanding loan, you may pay it of in a lump sum or continue to make monthly payments 

by check m the Savings Plan Service Center, you should contact the Savings Plan Service Center to 

arrange 

will be treated 

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asawthdrawal and you 

payments. 

will ae to u 

do not repay your the outstanding 

balance 

outstanding loan balance . 

pan' taxes in 2001 on 

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your 

The buyer will decide if a 401 (k) plan will be offered. 

Q. I am an hourly employ~ with Awe weeks vacation I earned last year, to be taken in 2001. If I am 

hired by SMART Papers, m a lower hourly wage nab than under the curnrnt contract, will my 

vacation be worth that laws amount? Would it be better to request ft" weeps' pay in Ihen of 

vacation now, while i am still at the current wage rats? 

A. You accrued your five weeks vacation due for 2001 in the year 2000. SMART Papers will assume the 

accrued vacation obligation for anyone hired. In other words. the live weeks of vacation you earned in 

2000 are worth the amount as stated in the current labor agreement, whether you take them before or 

after the sale of the Mall 

Meetings scheduled this week for hourly retirement-eiigiile employees 

in order to facilitate requests for retirement figure*, Human Resources will have available individualized 

packets for alt retirement-eligible hourly employees tags 55 and older as of January 31. 2001. with at least 

10 years of service) . . 

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hassIM on January 25 and 26 (Chursday and Ftidayj, at 6 p.m. in the Communications Cente r. The 

dividualized packets will be distributed at these informational meetings. Employees and spouses are 

,lvitei to attend either meeting. It b not necessary to Schedule in advance. 

Please note: the Communications Center is not barclicap-accessible . Arynrse needing assistance or 

*pedal arrangements to attend a meeting should contact Curtis Marcus at 4642. Aavoaa an" to 

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