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Plan has a last day worked requirement in order to receive nonelective contributions.

However, participants that terminate employment on 12/31 (cal yr plan) are not eligible.

Never seen this, what is the justification? Do plan specs state clearly, must be active employee on last day of the plan year?

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I am not sure I fully understand the question.  

Is the question:  Since he terminated on 12/31 he wasn't active on 12/31 and if he had wanted to be active on 12/31 they should have quit as of the following 1/1 or is it a different question? 

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10 minutes ago, TPApril said:

I guess we've always treated someone who terminates on 12/31 as being included under 'last day worked' requirements and therefor eligible for the NE contribution.

Yes, that is how we do it.   So someone is saying they need to make their termination date 1/1 to get an allocation under a last day rule it sounds like.  If they got comp and hours for 12/31 I don't see how you don't say they weren't employed on 12/31.  What were they being paid for if they weren't working that day????

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Our office uses FT William as our software of choice for plan documents and 5500 services.

With FT William's Post PPA documents, the last day of employment and an employee that separates service on the last day is now an option that an employer can elect. 

 

19a. If the Plan has a last day requirement, an Employee who terminates on the last day of the applicable period is treated as being employed for purposes of satisfying allocation conditions
 
 Yes / 
 No
 
https://www.ftwilliam.com/images/icons/minus-12-11.png

 

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On 5/20/2022 at 2:11 PM, TPApril said:

Plan has a last day worked requirement in order to receive nonelective contributions.

However, participants that terminate employment on 12/31 (cal yr plan) are not eligible.

Never seen this, what is the justification? Do plan specs state clearly, must be active employee on last day of the plan year?

This is confusing. If you say that those who terminate employment on 12/31 are eligible, who/what is saying they aren't?

Ed Snyder

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On 5/20/2022 at 4:31 PM, A Shot in the Dark said:

Our office uses FT William as our software of choice for plan documents and 5500 services.

With FT William's Post PPA documents, the last day of employment and an employee that separates service on the last day is now an option that an employer can elect. 

 

19a. If the Plan has a last day requirement, an Employee who terminates on the last day of the applicable period is treated as being employed for purposes of satisfying allocation conditions
 
 
 Yes / 
 
 No
 
https://www.ftwilliam.com/images/icons/minus-12-11.png

 

The question remains, if a plan answers "No" to this question, meaning they treat an employee who terminates on 12/31 as not being employed on the last day of the plan year, and they use a safe harbor allocation formula with a last day requirement, would they still be treated as meeting the requirements of the design-based safe harbor in the 401(a)(4) regs?

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Corey B. Zeller, MSEA, CPC, QPA, QKA
Preferred Pension Planning Corp.
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7 minutes ago, C. B. Zeller said:

The question remains, if a plan answers "No" to this question, meaning they treat an employee who terminates on 12/31 as not being employed on the last day of the plan year, and they use a safe harbor allocation formula with a last day requirement, would they still be treated as meeting the requirements of the design-based safe harbor in the 401(a)(4) regs?

That's a great question. My initial reaction was "it's ok" because you're just clarifying what it means to be employed (or not) on the last day. But the regs refer to "...employment on the last day of the plan year..." which says to me that you can't very well say someone employed and terminated on the last day is, well, NOT employed on the last day, for this purpose. Unfortunately the examples refer to "...employees who have not separated from service as of the last day of the plan year..." which muddles things, at least for me. In any event, no way would I use a term date of 12/31 and say that person is not employed on the last day of a calendar year.

Ed Snyder

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On 5/20/2022 at 10:31 AM, A Shot in the Dark said:

Our office uses FT William as our software of choice for plan documents and 5500 services.

With FT William's Post PPA documents, the last day of employment and an employee that separates service on the last day is now an option that an employer can elect.

Shot in the Dark - have you ever put this into action, or seen it used? Not sure why ftw offers this as an option, I'm not convinced that you can not give an NE allocation to someone who is employed on and terminates on the last day.

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