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Before HENRY,Chief Circuit Judge, and SEYMOUR and EBEL, Circuit Judges.

Plaintiff-Appellant Barbara Scruggs performed secretarial services for ExxonMobil for twenty-two years until her office in Oklahoma was closed in 2005. After the office closed, she filed this action pursuant 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1), seeking retroactive pension and savings benefits allegedly owed to her under two ExxonMobil employee benefits plans, ExxonMobil Pension Plan and ExxonMobil Savings Plan (collectively “the Plans”).*fn1 Because Scruggs performed her services for ExxonMobil as an independent contractor or while on the payroll of third-party companies, the plan administrator denied her claim for benefits because, inter alia, she was ineligible for benefits under the Plans. The district court granted summary judgment for the Plans on the basis that Scruggs’s action was untimely and, alternatively, upheld the administrator’s decision as not arbitrary and capricious. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm on the basis that the administrator’s denial of benefits was not arbitrary and capricious.

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