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

  • 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 Top-Heavy minimum contribution does not apply to any Participant to the extent the Participant is covered under any other plan(s) of the Employer and the Employer has provided in the Adoption Agreement that the minimum allocation or benefit requirements applicable to this Plan will be satisfied in the other plan(s).

  • One of the following schedules will be used for years when the Plan is or is deemed to be Top-Heavy.

  • For any Plan Year in which this Plan is Top-Heavy, one of the Top Heavy minimum vesting schedules as elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement will automatically apply to the Plan.


More Definitions of Top-Heavy

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 (excluding catch-up contributions as described in Code Section 414(v) made in the Plan Year in which the determination is being made) under the Plan for all Key Employees exceeds sixty percent (60%) of the present value of the cumulative Accounts (excluding catch-up contributions as described in Code Section 414(v) for the current Plan Year) 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. 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 qualified Plan which is a Top-Heavy Plan pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.7.16.
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 the status of the Plan in any Plan Year in which the Top Heavy Ratio as of the Determination Date exceeds 60%. If any Employer maintains another qualified plan, such other plan is required to be taken into account in determining the Top Heavy Ratio only if it is a part of the Required Aggregation Group. If any Employer maintains a qualified plan which is part of the Permissive Aggregation Group, such plan will be taken into account in determining the Top Heavy Ratio of the group of plans at the sole discretion of the Employer.
Top-Heavy means that the Plan is included in an Aggregation Group under which, as of the Determination Date, the sum of the present value of the cumulative accrued benefits for Key Employees under all defined benefit plans in the Aggregation Group and the aggregate of all accounts 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 section 416(g)(2)(B) of the Code and the regulations thereunder.
Top-Heavy means that as of the Determination Date: