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Concerned ITT Retirees

April 7, 2016

Dear ITT Retiree,

As you may recall, CITTR wrote letters to Washington leaders and U.S. Government agencies asking for help.

The Committee has now received a reply from the U.S. Department of Labor. Although the Department of Labor (DOL) offers no immediate relief from Harris Corporation's actions terminating your life insurance benefits, the letter does state that the CITTR inquiry has been referred to an investigator in the DOL's Miami office.

The Committee has replied to the DOL and included, with that response, a "Retiree Benefit Funding White Paper" which answers the statements that Harris Corporation has given to the DOL and, as well, to reporters.   The Committee's White Paper strongly disagrees with the reasoning Harris Corporation offers in defense of the plan termination.  We are attaching a PDF which includes the DOL's letter to the CITTR and our recent response, including the White Paper.

We suggest you share the White Paper with your federal, state and local government officials and media outlets.  This will help correct the erroneous statements Harris Corporation spokesmen have made.

Click here to see the CITTR/DOL correspondence

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Thank you for your continuing support.

Sincerely,

The CONCERNED ITT RETIREES Steering Committee

             Dick Ward, Chair, former ITT General Counsel

                Howard Aibel, former ITT General Counsel 

        Harlan Murray, former ITT Associate General Counsel

               Mickey Alper, former ITT Deputy Comptroller

               Bruce McLanahan, former ITT Senior Counsel

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About Concerned ITT Retirees

Concerned ITT Retirees is an Unincorporated Nonprofit Association representing the interests of ITT retirees.  It was formed in 2011 to address retiree issues during the 2011 reorganization of ITT Corporation (previously named ITT Industries, Inc.) leading to the spin-off of the ITT Defense business and formation of Exelis Inc (also spun off was ITT's Water business, renamed Xylem, Inc.).  Concerned ITT Retirees seeks to protect the interests of ITT retirees and their retiree benefits as impacted by the 2015 acquisition of Exelis by Harris Corporation.

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