EXAM 1 Flashcards
Service is the basis on which a plan determines all of the following EXCEPT:
contributions
The initial year of service for eligibility purposes is always based on which of the
following?
Employment year
Which of the following is NOT a test that a qualified plan must satisfy?
Highly Compensated Test
For a defined contribution plan, annual additions include all of the following EXCEPT?
Plan fees and expenses
Top-heavy retirement plans using graded vesting require at least _______ vesting after
3 years.
40%
Which of the following is NOT a factor in determining key employee status?
An officer having compensation in excess of 2 times the annual addition limit
A plan is determined to be top heavy with respect to a plan year if the ratio determined
by dividing the account balance of key employees by the account balances of all
employees EXCEEDS:
60%
ERISA vesting requirements in non-top heavy plans:
require years to be counted, if the employee was paid for at least 1000 hours.
A defined contribution plan is top heavy when the account balances of key employees
exceed ________ of the total account balances, including distributions made during the
last five years.
60%
A key employee is defined as follows EXCEPT for:
one of the ten largest owners of the employer.
A minimum non-integrated contribution of 3% of compensation must be provided to
eligible participants for each year in which a key employee receives an allocation of at
least 3% in order to remedy:
a top-heavy situation
For post Pension Protection Act employer Defined Contribution funds, cliff-vesting
schedules require employees to become 100% vested after:
3 years.
For Post-Pension Protection Act employer contributions, minimum graded vesting for
non-top-heavy plans after 5 years is:
80%
Which one of the following is an acceptable vesting schedule for a qualified pension
plan that is not top-heavy for Post Pension Protection Act employer Defined
Contribution Plans?
Immediate 100% vesting for all contributions
Which of the following vesting schedules may NOT be applied to either elective or
matching employer contributions?
4-7 year graded
Which of the following is NOT a valid reason for maintaining a qualified retirement
plan?
The law requires that every company with 25 or more employees maintain a
qualified retirement plan.
Growth in qualified retirement plans is:
tax deferred.
Which of the following is NOT a reason for maintaining a qualified retirement plan?
The law requires all companies with over 35 employees to offer one.
Which of the following is NOT true for all qualified retirement plans?
Funds are tax exempt upon withdrawal after age 59 1/2.
Today, an individual’s retirement income will most likely:
have to take inflation into account.
“Qualified” with regard to a pension plan means that:
contributions to the plan by the employer are generally tax-deductible.
A qualified plan participant who owns 100% of his or her retirement account is said to
be:
fully vested.
Which of the following is NOT a tax advantage of qualified pension plans?
Tax-free distribution of plan death benefits
The most widely accepted rationale for private pension plans is known as:
the deferred wage concept.
A qualified plan funding method that includes individual accounts for each participant,
with the participant having control over the investment of employer contributions is
called:
an individual account plan method.
ERISA places limitations on:
a plan’s benefits and contributions.
The 4 R’s of compensation policy that are important objectives of designing employee
benefit plans include all of the following EXCEPT?
Recognize
Which of the following is a type of nonqualified deferred compensation program?
Supplemental executive retirement plan
To claim a tax deduction for contributions to a qualified retirement plan for the first plan
year, all of the following must be accomplished by year-end EXCEPT:
all contributions must be made to a qualified trust.
The Internal Revenue Service will generally approve a plan termination EXCEPT when
the:
All of the answers are acceptable to the IRS.
All of the following are true regarding retroactive amendments EXCEPT?
Retroactive amendments can be made up to the employer’s tax filing date,
excluding extensions.
In a rush to get a qualified retirement plan installed before the deadline for the tax year,
the owner of Baxter Concrete failed to get a determination letter from the IRS. Five
years later, Baxter is audited. If the IRS finds a disqualifying provision or if an essential
provision is missing from Baxter’s plan, the IRS could impose all of the following
EXCEPT?
Baxter’s board could be charged for a criminal offense.
Acorn Booksellers is a small business interested in adopting a qualified retirement plan.
The owner of Acorn wants to be able to choose from more than one financial institution
when implementing the plan. Acorn’s owner also wants to determine such things as
the vesting schedule, and the contribution or benefit formula. As a small business,
Acorn wants to keep costs down. You recommend that Acorn use:
a prototype plan because it would give Acorn choice in funding institution or medium
while keeping installation and implementation costs low.
ERISA mandates full reporting and disclosure to plan participants in all of the following
instances EXCEPT:
when the plan is being considered for adoption by the board of directors
A new plan must provide a summary plan description to eligible participants within
which of the following time frames?
Within 120 days after an eligible employee is credited with an hour of service
The disadvantages of age-weighted plans include all of the following EXCEPT?
Older higher paid participants receive a greater contribution
A money purchase plan document must include all of the following EXCEPT the:
earnings rate to be credited annually to each participant’s account.
The maximum contribution to a money purchase pension plan for a common law
employee of an unincorporated business is:
25.00%
A money purchase plan is a type of:
defined contribution plan.
Money purchase pension plans:
must have a provision in the plan document fixing the amount of company
contribution.
Which of the following plans is subject to the MINIMUM funding requirements of the
IRS Code?
Money purchase
In a typical profit sharing plan which allows participants to direct investments,
participants must be provided a statement at least:
quarterly.
Which of the following is NOT an element of employee total return in a profit sharing
plan?
Forfeitures
Which of the following is TRUE for qualified profit-sharing plans?
All income from the plan’s assets are not taxed until received.
All of the following are the maximum allowable tax deductible contributions that may be
made by a company to a profit sharing plan EXCEPT?
Excluding the 401(k) deferrals of employees.
Employer profit-sharing contributions use the following definition of compensation:
plan compensation.
Section 404 profit-sharing limits are tested at the _____________ year end.
plan
For employers with profit-sharing plans, the deductibility limit for plan contributions is
equal to _____ of employee compensation.
25%
Employers maintain the greatest flexibility in the amount of contribution to a qualified
retirement plan by adopting a:
profit-sharing plan.
As a condition of qualification, the IRS requires that a profit sharing plan contain:
a definite allocation formula
Target benefit plans:
are a form of money purchase plans.
A target benefit plan can be described as a combination of which of the following two
plan types?
Defined benefit and money-purchase pension
Which of the following is (are) true regarding a cash balance plan?
Each participant has a hypothetical account that the employer credits at least
annually
A cash balance plan and a traditional defined benefit plan share which of the following
characteristics EXCEPT?
A stated earnings credit
A defined benefit retirement plan document probably will NOT describe the:
plan investments.
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a defined contribution plan?
Older employees accumulate greater accounts
For defined contribution plans, which of the variables below is the participant unable to
know in advance?
Ultimate benefit available to an employee