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Matz v. Household Int'l Tax Reduction Investment Plan

IRS's amicus brief regarding partial termination of retirement benefit plan was informal agency policy pronouncement not entitled to Chevron deference; thus court of appeals was free to adopt rule that only non-vested participants should be counted in determining whether partial termination of pension plan has occurred.

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Bauer, Circuit Judge. Robert J. Matzfiled an ERISA action, claimingentitlement to benefits as a result of apartial termination of a retirementbenefit plan. The district court heldthat in determining whether partialtermination occurred: (1) both vested andnon-vested plan participants should becounted, see Matz v. Household Int’l TaxReduction Inv. Plan, 1998 WL 851491, *5(N.D. Ill. Dec. 1, 1998); and (2)multiple plan years could be aggregated,see 1999 WL 754659, *6 (N.D. Ill. Sept.9, 1999). The Plan contested the districtcourt’s decisions on interlocutoryappeal, and in 227 F.3d 971 (7th Cir.2000), we affirmed. The Plan petitionedfor writ of certiorari, which the SupremeCourt granted, thereby vacating andremanding the case to us for furtherconsideration in light of United Statesv. Mead Corp., 121 S. Ct. 2164 (2001). Onremand, we are faced with the question ofto what extent we must defer to theinterpretation of “partial termination”by the IRS found in an amicus brief,which is one of the agencies responsiblefor administering the partial terminationstatute.

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