Estate planning at JULY
How to protect 6 JULY accounts — manage beneficiaries by phone, fund a trust by mail, and file death claims
JULY Participant Questions
Phone(888) 333-6315
Mailing Address
July Business Services, P.O. Box 2208, Waco, TX 76703 (physical: 400 Austin Avenue, Suite 1200, Waco, TX 76701)
Participant help line / technical support (8:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Central)
Existing plan sponsor / advisor questions
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JULY Participant Questions
Phone(888) 333-6315
Mailing Address
July Business Services, P.O. Box 2208, Waco, TX 76703 (physical: 400 Austin Avenue, Suite 1200, Waco, TX 76701)
Participant help line / technical support (8:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Central)
Existing plan sponsor / advisor questions
WebsiteLearn more→
JULY Distributions Department
Mailing Address
July Business Services, P.O. Box 2208, Waco, TX 76703 (physical: 400 Austin Avenue, Suite 1200, Waco, TX 76701)
Participant Questions
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Verified Jul 2026
JULY is a retirement provider managing 6 retirement retirement accounts. These tax-advantaged accounts transfer by beneficiary designation—not by will—making it critical to keep designations current and aligned with broader estate planning goals.
Account holders can update their beneficiary designations at JULY by mail and by phone. Accounts can also be retitled into a trust to keep them out of probate entirely.
JULY has documented procedures for both preparing accounts during your lifetime and handling claims when an account holder passes away.
Preparing your estate
Beneficiaries and trust funding
How to update beneficiaries by phone, fund a trust by mail, and review 6 account types at JULY.
View details →When someone dies
Death claim process
6-step process, 7 required documents, and contact information for survivors.
View details →Frequently asked questions
Maybe not. JULY's termination-distributions page explains the involuntary cash-out provision that most plan documents carry: if a terminated participant never elected a distribution, a vested balance of $1,000 or less is either paid out as a lump sum or moved to an automatic rollover IRA, and a balance between $1,001 and $5,000 is either moved to an automatic rollover IRA or left in the plan. JULY works with Retirement Clearinghouse (RCH) to process those automatic rollovers — RCH scrubs addresses, contacts the participant, monitors a 30-day window, and rolls the balance over if there is no response. So an executor tracing a small old 401(k) should ask both JULY and Retirement Clearinghouse. Balances above $5,000 (excluding the rollover source) stay in the plan until a distribution is elected, which is why a long-dormant account can still be sitting with the former employer's plan.
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JULY Participant Questions
Phone(888) 333-6315
Mailing Address
July Business Services, P.O. Box 2208, Waco, TX 76703 (physical: 400 Austin Avenue, Suite 1200, Waco, TX 76701)
Participant help line / technical support (8:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Central)
Existing plan sponsor / advisor questions
WebsiteLearn more→
JULY Participant Questions
Phone(888) 333-6315
Mailing Address
July Business Services, P.O. Box 2208, Waco, TX 76703 (physical: 400 Austin Avenue, Suite 1200, Waco, TX 76701)
Participant help line / technical support (8:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Central)
Existing plan sponsor / advisor questions
WebsiteLearn more→
JULY Distributions Department
Mailing Address
July Business Services, P.O. Box 2208, Waco, TX 76703 (physical: 400 Austin Avenue, Suite 1200, Waco, TX 76701)
Participant Questions
WebsiteNotify online→
Verified Jul 2026
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