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Top Heavy Retirement Plan


Is my 401(k) top-heavy? | Internal Revenue Service

A plan is top-heavy when the owners and most highly paid employees ("key employees") own more than 60% of the value of the plan assets.

401(k) plan Fix-it Guide - The plan was top-heavy and required ... - IRS

The top-heavy rules generally ensure that the lower paid employees receive a minimum benefit if the plan is top-heavy. A plan is top-heavy when, ...

Top Heavy Rules - Guidant Financial

If more than 60 percent of the assets of the 401(k) plan are owned by key employees, the plan is called “top-heavy.” The plan is then subject to additional ...

Navigating top-heavy 401(k) tests: Everything you need to know in ...

A top-heavy 401(k) plan is one in which more than 60% of the plan's assets are owned by key employees. This top-heavy ratio is tested every year.

401(k) top heavy testing | Human Interest

If your plan is top-heavy, the plan sponsor must make corrections by contributing a minimum contribution to non-key employees. The contribution ...

The Top Heavy Test - What You Need to Know - Employee Fiduciary

A 401(k) plan is considered top heavy when the account balances of “key employees” exceed 60% of total plan assets.

Demystifying Top Heavy 401k Plans: What You Need to Know

If more than 60 percent of the assets of the 401(k) plan are owned by key employees, the plan is considered a “top-heavy 401k plan.”

What Is a Top-Heavy Retirement Plan? - Watkins Ross

A retirement plan is top-heavy when, as of the last day of the preceding plan year (the determination date), the total value of the plan assets ...

Nondiscrimination Testing: Top Heavy Determination

If the sum of all key employee balances exceeds 60% of the total balances in the entire plan as of the determination date, the plan is top heavy, potentially ...

Top Heavy Impact on 401(k) Plans - Associated Financial Consultants

A defined contribution plan that is top heavy must provide a minimum contribution to non-key employees equal to the highest contribution rate allocated to any ...

What does it mean to be top-heavy? - EJReynolds

In general, a plan is considered to be top-heavy when more than 60% of plan assets are attributable to “key employees” as of the “determination date”.

26 CFR § 1.416-1 - Questions and answers on top-heavy plans.

A plan or aggregation group will be considered top-heavy if the sum of the present value of the accrued benefits for key employees is more than 60 percent of ...

Top Heavy Retirement Plan: What is the Minimum Contribution?

A plan is generally considered to be top heavy if more than 60% of the total benefits (account balances for defined contribution plans or accrued benefits for ...

Top Heavy Rules May Impact Plan Design - Red Bank Pension ...

A plan is considered top heavy if more than 60% of the benefits under the plan belong to “key employees” as of the applicable determination date. Multiple plans ...

Tips to help your plan avoid becoming top-heavy

A plan is considered top-heavy when key employees hold more than 60% of the total account balances by value in a 401(k) plan.

Can a safe harbor 401(k) plan become top-heavy?

A safe harbor 401(k) that has only elective deferrals and safe harbor matching contributions is generally exempt from being top-heavy. If the ...

My 401(k) Failed the Top-Heavy Test. Now What? - Plancorp

The top-heavy test compares the account balances of “key employees” to those of “non-key employees.” If the sum of all key employee balances exceeds 60% of the ...

Why top-heavy first-year plans might benefit from profit sharing

The goal of Top-Heavy testing is to ensure that a 401(k) plan does not unfairly favor owners and “key employees.” Key employees are certain owners or officers ...

26 U.S. Code § 416 - Special rules for top-heavy plans

Each plan of an employer required to be included in an aggregation group shall be treated as a top-heavy plan if such group is a top-heavy group. (2) ...

How Do I Know If My 401(k) Is Top-Heavy?

Specifically, a 401(k) plan becomes top-heavy when more than 60% of its total assets are held by key employees. Updated Definition of Key ...