Exhibit 99-B.4.5
Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company
ENDORSEMENT
This Contract, and the Certificate, if applicable, are endorsed as follows.
Delete Section 10.01, Death Benefit, and replace it with the following:
If a Participant dies during the Accumulation Phase, we pay a death benefit. If
the Contract beneficiary requests payment of the death benefit as a lump sum or
Annuity option within six months of the Participant's death, the amount of the
death benefit MVA on the date we receive notice of death and a request for
payment in Good Order is guaranteed to be the greater of:
(a) The Individual Account value, minus any outstanding loan balance,
plus any applicable aggregate positive MVA; or
(b) The total of Contributions to the Individual Account, minus:
(1) Any amount withdrawn,
(2) Any outstanding loan balance,
(3) Or any amount used to purchase Annuity payments.
Endorsed and made part of this Contract, and the Certificate, if applicable, on
the Effective Date of the Contract and Certificate.
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President
Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company
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