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    linda j bowers Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Nov 13, 2009, 07:45 PM
    401k decessed father
    My father worked for 18 years at a factory in shelby vill ind and my mother never got his 401k when he passed away 8 years ago shouldn't she have something coming and how does she go about seeing
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    Nov 13, 2009, 08:19 PM

    She needs to contact his employer . They don't automatically make a distribution. She needed to present them with a cpy of his death certificate. Then the sccount would be distributed to his listed beneficiary.
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    Nov 16, 2009, 12:50 PM

    While she's at it she should check to see if your father had a life insurance policy at work.

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