Without knowing the background, I'm presuming that whoever wrote the procedure felt that if the sole POD wanted to keep the funds in the account, they could just re-title it in the PODs name. If there were multiple PODs, re-titling would require all of them to agree to a joint account with the others.
Our philosophy has always been, pay the beneficiaries and close the account. If any of them chooose to keep the money with us, we'll open a new account under their name(s). This avoids a host of problems.
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