Early Retirement Benefits Properly Denied; Applicant Employed As Welder, Panel Says

(January 2, 2020, 5:34 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — A district court did not err in finding that an applicant did not qualify for early retirement benefits because the retirement trusts at issue required that the applicant refrain from engaging in employment as a sheet metal worker, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Dec. 11, noting that the trusts reasonably determined that the applicant’s employment as a welder constituted employment as a sheet metal worker  (Eugene Knudson v. Oregon Sheet Metal Workers Master Retirement Fund Trust, et al., No. 18-35857, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 36678)....