Top-Heavy definition

Top-Heavy means, with respect to the Plan for a Plan Year:
Top-Heavy. The Plan's status when the Plan Benefits of Key Employees account for more than 60% of the Plan Benefits of all Employees who have performed services at any time during the five year period ending on the Determination Date. The Plan Benefits of Employees who were, but are no longer, Key Employees (because they have not been an officer or Owner during the five year period), are excluded in the determination.
Top-Heavy means, with respect to any Plan Year, that the Plan falls within a Top-Heavy Group or that, as of the Determination Date, the Top Heavy Ratio exceeds 60%.

Examples of Top-Heavy in a sentence

  • Further, no reduction in vested benefits may occur in the event the Plan's status as Top-Heavy changes for any Plan Year.

  • Each party will protect the confidentiality of the Confidential Information of the other party by employing the same measures (but in no event less than reasonable measures) as it takes to protect its own Confidential Information.

  • For any Plan Year during which the Plan is Top-Heavy, the Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plan Fractions shall be calculated in accordance with Code Section 416(h).

  • The computation of a Participant's nonforfeitable percentage of such Participant's interest in the Plan shall not be reduced as the result of any direct or indirect amendment to this Article, or due to changes in the Plan's status as a Top-Heavy Plan.

  • Further, no decrease in a Participant's nonforfeitable percentage may occur in the event the Plan's status as a Top-Heavy Plan changes for any Plan Year.


More Definitions of Top-Heavy

Top-Heavy. For any Plan Year beginning after 1983, this Plan is Top-Heavy if any of the following conditions exist: (1) If the Top-Heavy Ratio for this Plan exceeds sixty percent (60%) and this Plan is not part of any Required Aggregation Group or Permissive Aggregation Group of plans. (2) If this Plan is a part of a Required Aggregation Group of plans, but not part of a Permissive Aggregation Group and the Top-Heavy Ratio for the group of plans exceeds sixty percent (60%). (3) If this Plan is a part of a Required Aggregation Group and part of a Permissive Aggregation Group of plans and the Top-Heavy Ratio for the Permissive Aggregation Group exceeds sixty percent (60%).
Top-Heavy means: (A) if the Plan is not included in a Required Aggregation Group, the Plan's condition in a Plan Year for which, as of the Determination Date: (i) the present value of the cumulative Accounts under the Plan for all Key Employees exceeds sixty percent (60%) of the present value of the cumulative Accounts under the Plan for all Participants; and (ii) the Plan, when included in every potential combination, if any, with any or all of: (I) any Required Aggregation Group, and (II) any plan of the Plan Sponsor which is not part of any Required Aggregation Group and which qualifies under Code Section 401 (a) is part of a Top-Heavy Group (as defined in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection); and (B) if the Plan is included in a Required Aggregation Group, the Plan's condition in a Plan Year for which, as of the Determination Date: (i) the Required Aggregation Group is a Top-Heavy Group (as defined in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection); and (ii) the Required Aggregation Group, when included in every potential combination, if any, with any or all of the plans of the Plan Sponsor and its Affiliates which are not part of the Required Aggregation Group and which qualify under Code Section 401(a), is part of a Top-Heavy Group (as defined in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection). (C) For purposes of Subparagraphs (A)(ii) and (B)(ii) of this Paragraph (1), any combination of plans must satisfy the requirements of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410 of the Code.
Top-Heavy means a qualified Plan which is a Top-Heavy Plan pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.7.16.
Top-Heavy means the Plan is included in an Aggregation Group under which, as of the Top-Heavy Determination Date, the sum of the present value of the cumulative accrued benefits of the Key Employees under all defined benefit plans in the Aggregation Group and the aggregate value of the accounts (excluding Rollover Accounts, except to the extent permitted by applicable Treasury Regulations) of Key Employees under all defined contribution plans in the Aggregation Group exceeds 60 percent of the analogous sum determined for all employees. The determination of whether the Plan is Top-Heavy shall be made in accordance with Code Section 416(g)(2)(8) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder.
Top-Heavy. PLAN This Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan for any Plan Year if it is determined to be such pursuant to Section 10.08.
Top-Heavy means: (A) if the Plan is not included in a Required Aggregation Group, the Plan's condition in a Plan Year for which, as of the Determination Date: (i) the present value of the cumulative Accrued Benefits under the Plan for all Key Employees exceeds 60 percent of the present value of the cumulative Accrued Benefits under the Plan for all Members; and (ii) the Plan, when included in every potential combination, if any, with any or all of: (I) any Required Aggregation Group, and (II) any plan of the Plan Sponsor which is not part of any Required Aggregation Group and which qualifies under Code Section 401 (a) is part of a Top-Heavy Group (as defined in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection); and (B) if the Plan is included in a Required Aggregation Group, the Plan's condition in a Plan Year for which, as of the Determination Date: (i) the Required Aggregation Group is a Top-Heavy Group (as defined in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection); and (ii) the Required Aggregation Group, when included in every potential combination, if any, with any or all of the plans of the Plan Sponsor and its Affiliates which are not part of the Required Aggregation Group and which qualify under Code Section 401(a), is part of a Top-Heavy Group (as defined in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection). (C) For purposes of Subparagraphs (A)(i) and (B)(ii) of this Paragraph (1), any combination of plans must satisfy the requirements of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410 of the Code.
Top-Heavy means a plan in which, as of the Determination Date, the Top-Heavy Ratio exceeds 60%. The determination of whether a plan is Top-Heavy shall be made in accordance with Section 416(g) of the Code.