Amendments to Employees' Excess Benefit Plan, Plan A



 Exhibit 10(j)(4) 
 AMENDMENT TO ALCOA INC. 
 EMPLOYEES’ EXCESS BENEFITS PLAN A 
 1.  Effective January 1, 2009, the following new definitions are added as follows: 
 “Specified Employee” means an employee as defined under written guidelines adopted by the Company, which comply with Section 409A of the
Internal Revenue Code and any regulations promulgated thereunder. 
 “Retirement” or “Retires” means the termination of
employment after becoming eligible for a Normal or Early Retirement type under Plan I Rules. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent a Participant is eligible for a Disability Retirement under Plan I Rules, such disability must also comply with
Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder for purposes of this Plan. “Retirement” shall also mean any retirement as may be defined under any executive severance agreement entered into between
the Company and a Participant. 
 “Short Term Applicable Rate of Interest” shall mean the rate prescribed for January of the year of
retirement under Section 1274(d) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
 2.  Section 2.1 is restated as follows: 
 2.1 All Excess Pensions will be payable to a Participant, or Surviving Spouse as described in Section 2.2. 
 3.  Section 2.2 is amended by adding the following after the first paragraph: 
 Effective January 1, 2009, all Excess Pensions not in pay status, will be payable in monthly installments as provided below: 
 a. Excess Pensions will be payable commencing on the last day of the month of 
  i) a Participant’s Retirement, or 
 ii) to the extent the Participant is not eligible for Retirement, but is otherwise vested in Plan I, the later of: 
 x) termination of vesting service as provided in Plan I, or 
 y) attainment of age 55, or

 z) such other date as irrevocably elected in writing by the Participant prior to December 31, 2008. 
 b. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent the Participant is a Specified Employee, such monthly installment will commence on the last day of the
seventh month 








 
following the date determined in a. above, and will be paid retroactively to the date determined in a. above, and will include interest accrued on the missed
payments. “Interest” means the interest calculated using the Short Term Applicable Rate of Interest in effect as of January of the year of retirement. 
 c. The determination of any Excess Pension payable with respect to Participant who Retires pursuant to the terms of an executive severance agreement, will include any service credit provided by such agreement for
purposes of determining vesting and eligibility, but not benefit accrual. 
 d. The form of payment of Excess Pension paid to a Participant
who has a Surviving Spouse as defined under Plan I Rules, is a joint and survivor annuity as described in Plan I Rules, in which the Participant’s Excess Pension paid during his or her lifetime is reduced, and an amount equal to 50% of the
Excess Pension amount received by the Participant is paid to the Surviving Spouse. There are no optional forms of payment or Qualified Optional Survivor Annuities (as that term is described in Plan I Rules) under this Plan. 
 e. The form of payment of Excess Pension paid to a Participant who has no Surviving Spouse on the date payment of Excess Pension commences is a single
life annuity as described in Plan I Rules. 
 4.  A new Section 2.5 is added as follows: 
 2.5 If a Participant is receiving payments under this Plan and is subsequently reemployed by the Company, payments under this Plan shall continue
regardless of the cessation of the Participant’s monthly Pension payments due to such reemployment under Plan I Rules. 
 5.  Effective as of
January 1, 2008, a new Article VII is added as follows: 
 ARTICLE VII 
 CHANGE IN CONTROL 
 7.1 Provisions Upon Change in Control. Notwithstanding any
other provision of the Plan, in the event of a Change in Control, as that term is defined in Alcoa Retirement Plan I, neither the Company, Board of Directors, Committee, or other designee of the Board of Directors, may, during the three-year period
commencing on the date that the Change in Control occurs: 
 a. Amend, modify, or terminate the Plan, except to the extent as may be legally
required by any law or regulations prescribed thereunder, or any provision of the Internal Revenue Code or any regulation prescribed thereunder; or 
 b. Reduce future Plan benefits of any Participant. 
 6.  In all other respects the Plan is ratified and confirmed.