Top-Heavy Ratio: Defined Benefit Plan Sample Clauses

Top-Heavy Ratio: Defined Benefit Plan. The Plan shall be a top-heavy Plan if, as of the Determination Date, the present value of Accrued Benefits under the Plan for Key Employees exceeds 60% of the present value of Accrued Benefits for all Employees. Certain distributions, described in Section 20.11, shall be added to the present value of Accrued Benefits. The present value of Accrued Benefits for purposes of the Determination Date shall be the same as the present value of Accrued Benefits calculated on the most recent Valuation Date within a 12-month period ending on the Determination Date. The Valuation Date shall be the date used for computing minimum funding costs, regardless of whether a valuation is performed for that year. For the first Plan Year only, Accrued Benefits for a current Participant shall be determined either: (i) as if the individual terminated employment on the lest day of that Plan Year or (ii) as if the individual terminated employment as of the Valuation Date, but taking into account the estimated Accrued Benefit as of the Determination Date. For succeeding Plan Years, a current Participant's Accrued Benefit shall be determined as if the individual terminated employment as of the most recent Valuation Date within the 12-month period ending on the Determination Date. Actuarial assumptions used to determine present value shall be reasonable. They shall include an interest and a postretirement mortality assumption, and the assumptions utilized under the Plan ere specified in its Adoption Agreement. They may include preretirement mortality end future increases in the cost of living. They shall not include future withdrawal or future salary increases. In the case of a Plan for which the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity is the normal form of benefit, the spouse of the Participant may be assumed to be the same age as the Participant. Ancillary benefits, including preretirement death and disability benefits end postretirement medical benefits, shall not be taken into account. Subsidized benefit options and subsidized early retirement benefits shall not be taken into account unless they are nonproportional subsidies. If a plan provides for a nonproportional subsidy, the benefit shall be assumed to commence at the age at which the benefit is most valuable. A subsidy is nonproportional unless the subsidy applies to a group of employees that would independently satisfy the requirements of Code Section 410(b). The actuarial assumptions and benefits considered to determine present...
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  • DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN LIMITATION If the Employer maintains a defined benefit plan, or has ever maintained a defined benefit plan which the Employer has terminated, then the sum of the defined benefit plan fraction and the defined contribution plan fraction for any Participant for any Limitation Year must not exceed 1.0. The Employer must provide in Adoption Agreement Section 3.18 the manner in which the Plan will satisfy this limitation. The Employer also must provide in its Adoption Agreement Section 3.18 the manner in which the Plan will satisfy the top heavy requirements of Code Section 416 after taking into account the existence (or prior maintenance) of the defined benefit plan.

  • Defined Benefit Plan A plan under which a Participant’s benefit is determined by a formula contained in the plan and no Employee accounts are maintained for Participants.

  • Defined Benefit Plans The Company has not maintained or contributed to a defined benefit plan as defined in Section 3(35) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”). No plan maintained or contributed to by the Company that is subject to ERISA (an “ERISA Plan”) (or any trust created thereunder) has engaged in a “prohibited transaction” within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) that could subject the Company to any material tax penalty on prohibited transactions and that has not adequately been corrected. Each ERISA Plan is in compliance in all material respects with all reporting, disclosure and other requirements of the Code and ERISA as they relate to such ERISA Plan, except for any noncompliance which would not result in the imposition of a material tax or monetary penalty. With respect to each ERISA Plan that is intended to be “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code, either (i) a determination letter has been issued by the Internal Revenue Service stating that such ERISA Plan and the attendant trust are qualified thereunder, or (ii) the remedial amendment period under Section 401(b) of the Code with respect to the establishment of such ERISA Plan has not ended and a determination letter application will be filed with respect to such ERISA Plan prior to the end of such remedial amendment period. The Company has never completely or partially withdrawn from a “multiemployer plan,” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA.

  • Defined Benefit Pension Plans The Borrower will not adopt, create, assume or become a party to any defined benefit pension plan, unless disclosed to the Lender pursuant to Section 5.10.

  • Welfare, Pension and Incentive Benefit Plans During the Employment Period, the Executive (and his eligible spouse and dependents) shall be entitled to participate in all the welfare benefit plans and programs maintained by the Company from time to time for the benefit of its senior executives including, without limitation, all medical, hospitalization, dental, disability, accidental death and dismemberment and travel accident insurance plans and programs. In addition, during the Employment Period, the Executive shall be eligible to participate in all pension, retirement, savings and other employee benefit plans and programs maintained from time to time by the Company for the benefit of its senior executives.

  • Stock-Based Employee Benefit Plans Parent and SpinCo shall take all actions as may be necessary to approve the grants of adjusted equity awards by Parent (in respect of Parent Shares) and SpinCo (in respect of SpinCo Shares) in connection with the Distribution in order to satisfy the requirements of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act.

  • Employee Pension Benefit Plans Except as disclosed in ------------------------------ Schedule 3.14, the Company does not maintain or contribute to any arrangement ------------- that is or may be an "employee pension benefit plan" relating to employees, as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA. With respect to each such plan: (i) the plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code, and any trust through which the plan is funded meets the requirements to be exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code; (ii) the plan is in material compliance with ERISA; (iii) the plan has been administered in accordance with its governing documents as modified by applicable law; (iv) the plan has not suffered an "accumulated funding deficiency" as defined in Section 412(a) of the Code; (v) the plan has not engaged in, nor has any fiduciary with respect to the plan engaged in, any "prohibited transaction" as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code other than a transaction subject to statutory or administrative exemption; (vi) the plan has not been subject to a "reportable event" (as defined in Section 4043(b) of ERISA), the reporting of which has not been waived by regulation of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (vii) no termination or partial termination of the plan has occurred within the meaning of Section 411(d)(3) of the Code; (viii) all contributions required to be made to the plan or under any applicable collective bargaining agreement have been made to or on behalf of the plan; (ix) there is no material litigation, arbitration or disputed claim outstanding; and (x) all applicable premiums due to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation for plan termination insurance have been paid in full on a timely basis.

  • Defined Contribution Plan A plan under which Employee accounts are maintained for each Participant to which all contributions, forfeitures, investment income and gains or losses, and expenses are credited or deducted. A Participant’s benefit under such plan is based solely on the fair market value of his or her account balance.

  • Distributions Upon Income Inclusion Under Section 409A of the Code Upon the inclusion of any portion of the benefits payable pursuant to this Agreement into the Executive’s income as a result of the failure of this non-qualified deferred compensation plan to comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, to the extent such tax liability can be covered by the Executive’s vested accrued liability, a distribution shall be made as soon as is administratively practicable following the discovery of the plan failure.

  • Employees; Employee Benefit Plans (a) Section 4.11(a) of the Hxxxxx United Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list of each “employee benefit plan” (within the meaning of ERISA, including multiemployer plans within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(37)), stock purchase, stock option, severance, employment, loan, change-in-control, fringe benefit, collective bargaining, bonus, incentive, deferred compensation and all other employee benefit plans, agreements, programs, policies or other arrangements, whether or not subject to ERISA (including any funding mechanism therefor now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise) under which any current or former employee, director or independent contractor of Hxxxxx United or any of its Subsidiaries has any present or future right to benefits and under which Hxxxxx United or any of its Subsidiaries has any present or future liability. All such plans, agreements, programs, policies and arrangements shall be collectively referred to as the “Hxxxxx United Benefit Plans.”

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