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Employer non-elective contribution to participants under employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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The minimum number of hours a participant must work in a calendar year for that year to count as a year of service toward vesting in the employer's contributions under the employee benefit plan.

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Period of repayment of loan, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days under employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Number of non-insurance company employees eligible to participate in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

No definition available.

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Number of wholly-owned insurance subsidiaries eligible to participate in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

No definition available.

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The incremental annual percentage increase that the participant may elect to be applied to the plan participant's salary deferral rate under an employee benefit/retirement plan.

No definition available.

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The percentage of participant contributions in which the participant is fully vested under the employee benefit plan.

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The age at which participants become eligible for contributions under employee benefit plan.

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Percentage of the participants vested account balance that the participant may borrow in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) can borrow to total participant account balance.

No definition available.

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Participant account is charged with quarterly trustee and recordkeeping fee under employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of participant vested account balance under employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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The mount of the participants vested account balance that the participant may borrow in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) can borrow.

No definition available.

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Participants contributions and related earnings allocated to investment options, percentage increase in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

No definition available.

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Amount of increase in net asset available for benefit from cash contribution from employer of participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Indicates (true false) whether description of employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) is published and made available.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of employer matching contribution on eligible participant contribution to employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Percentage of participant compensation eligible for employer matching contribution for participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of plan asset, in forfeited nonvested account, no longer allocated to participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of decrease in forfeited nonvested account of employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) from administrative expense.

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Percentage of eligible compensation contributed for participant automatically enrolled in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of maximum pretax annual compensation that participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)), is permitted to contribute.

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Percentage of maximum pretax annual compensation that participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)), is permitted to contribute to total pretax annual compensation.

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Interest rate on participant loan in schedule of asset held for investment of employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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