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Facility of Payment

8.05 - If the Trustees shall determine that any retired Participant or other Person to whom any benefit is payable is unable to care for his or her affairs because of illness, accident, minority, or other incapacity, any payment due (unless prior claim shall have been made by a duly qualified guardian, committee, or other legal representative) may be made to such retired Participant's or Person's Spouse, parent, brother or sister, or any other Person as the Trustees may determine. Any such payment shall be a payment for the account of such retired Participant or other Person entitled thereto and shall, to the extent thereof, be a complete discharge of any liability under the Plan to such Person.