A plan sponsor has participants that missed 5 months of deferral opportunity due to a technical payroll glitch.
The Sponsor wants to know if the Rolling Three-Month exception can apply to the last 3 months of the missed 5 months, where they would only have to fund a 25% QNEC for the first 2 months and not for the full 5 months.
Rolling Three-Month Exception. The Revenue Procedure converts the existing three-month exception into a rolling three-month provision. So long as elective deferrals commence within three months of when they should have commenced – regardless of where that falls during a plan year – an employer need not make up the missed deferrals. (