First Financial Corporation 2005 Executives' Supplemental Retirement Plan
This agreement establishes a supplemental retirement plan for select executives and highly compensated employees of First Financial Corporation and its affiliates. The plan provides additional retirement benefits to compensate for limitations on benefits under the company's standard pension plan. It outlines eligibility, benefit calculations, investment provisions, payment methods, and administrative procedures. The plan is effective January 1, 2005, and is intended to comply with federal tax and ERISA requirements. Participation is limited to a select group of management or highly compensated employees, and benefits are paid upon retirement, death, or other qualifying events.
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EXECUTIVES SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT PLAN
ARTICLE | PAGE | |||
INTRODUCTION | i | |||
Article I DEFINITIONS | i | |||
1.1 2005 EDCP | i | |||
1.2 Board | i | |||
1.3 Code | i | |||
1.4 Committee | i | |||
1.5 Company | i | |||
1.6 Effective Date | i | |||
1.7 Employee | i | |||
1.8 Employer | i | |||
1.9 ESOP | i | |||
1.10 Frozen EDCP | i | |||
1.11 Frozen ESRP | i | |||
1.12 Key Employee | i | |||
1.13 Participant | ii | |||
1.14 Participant Benefit | ii | |||
1.15 Pension Plan | ii | |||
1.16 Plan | ii | |||
1.17 Plan Year | ii | |||
1.18 Separation from Service | ii | |||
Article II ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION | iii | |||
Article III BENEFITS | iii | |||
3.1 Amount of Benefit | iii | |||
3.2 Sample Calculation of Benefit | iv | |||
Article IV INVESTMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS | iv | |||
4.1 Investments | iv | |||
4.2 Unsecured Contractual Rights | iv | |||
Article V DISTRIBUTIONS | iv | |||
5.1 Time of Payment of Benefits | iv | |||
5.2 Method of Payment of Benefits | v | |||
5.3 Benefit Payment Elections | v | |||
5.4 Death of the Participant and Beneficiary Designation | v | |||
5.5 Acceleration of Time of Payment | vi |
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ARTICLE | PAGE | |||
Article VI PLAN ADMINISTRATION | ix | |||
6.1 Administration by the Committee | ix | |||
6.2 Powers and Responsibilities of the Committee | ix | |||
6.3 Liabilities | x | |||
6.4 Income and Employment Tax Withholding | x | |||
Article VII AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION OF THE PLAN | x | |||
7.1 Amendment of the Plan | x | |||
7.2 Termination of the Plan | x | |||
Article VIII CLAIMS PROCEDURES | x | |||
8.1 Procedures Governing Benefit Claims | x | |||
8.2 Notification of Benefit Determinations | x | |||
8.3 Manner and Content of Notification of Benefit Determinations | x | |||
8.4 Appeal of Adverse Benefit Determinations | xi | |||
8.5 Benefit Determination on Review | xi | |||
8.6 Notification of Benefit Determination on Review | xi | |||
8.7 Manner and Content of Notification of Benefit Determination on Review | xii | |||
8.8 Court Action | xii | |||
Article IX MISCELLANEOUS | xii | |||
9.1 Governing Law | xii | |||
9.2 Headings and Gender | xii | |||
9.3 Participants Rights; Acquittance | xiii | |||
9.4 Spendthrift Clause | xiii | |||
9.5 Counterparts | xiii | |||
9.6 No Enlargement of Employment Rights | xiii | |||
9.7 Limitations on Liability | xiii | |||
9.8 Incapacity of Participant or Beneficiary | xiii | |||
9.9 Corporate Successors | xiii | |||
9.10 Evidence | xiii | |||
9.11 Action by Employer | xiv | |||
9.12 Severability | xiv | |||
SIGNATURES | xiv | |||
APPENDIX A SAMPLE CALCUATION DESCRIPTION | 1 |
(a) | An officer of an Employer having annual compensation greater than $140,000; |
(b) | A five-percent owner of the Company; or | ||
(c) | A one-percent owner of the Company having an annual compensation greater than $150,000. |
(a) | is the Participants Normal Benefit (as defined by Section 3.1 of the Pension Plan, but prior to reduction of such amount by the ESOP Monthly Benefit, as also defined by the Pension Plan) that would otherwise be payable to or on account of the Participant under the Pension Plan, calculated as of the Participants Normal Retirement Date (as defined by the Pension Plan) and ending on his death, on the basis of a monthly retirement income, which is the normal form of payment (as defined by the Pension Plan), determined as if the provisions of the Pension Plan were administered without regard to the limitations imposed by Code Sections 401(a)(17) and 415. For purposes of determining the Normal Benefit under this subsection (a), any salary deferral made by or on account of the Participant under the Frozen EDCP or the 2005 EDCP from the definition of compensation used to determine the Normal Benefit under the Pension Plan are to be included as compensation; and | ||
(b) | is the Participants Normal Benefit (as defined by the Pension Plan, but prior to reduction of such amount by the ESOP Monthly Benefit, as also defined by the Pension Plan) that is payable to or on account of the Participant under the Pension Plan, calculated as of the Participants Normal Retirement Date (as defined by the Pension Plan) and ending on his death, on the basis of a monthly retirement income, which is the normal form of payment (as defined by the Pension Plan); and | ||
(c) | is the Participants accrued benefit under the Frozen ESRP that is payable to or on account of the Participant under the Frozen ESRP, calculated as of the Participants Normal Retirement Date (as defined by the Pension Plan) on the basis of a monthly retirement income, which is the normal form of payment (as defined by the Pension Plan)(such Frozen ESRP benefit being |
calculated in similar manner, but with such benefit accruals being frozen in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Frozen ESRP; and | |||
(d) | is the Participants Supplemental Benefit under Section 3.3 of the 2005 EDCP, converted to a monthly annuity in the same manner as provided for in the Pension Plan with regard to the Participants benefit under the ESOP; and | ||
(e) | the result of calculating subsection (a) less subsection (b) less subsection (c) less subsection (d), above, will be adjusted by: |
(i) | applying the actuarial factors provided by the Pension Plan, to reduce the Participants benefit for payments prior to or after the Participants Normal Retirement Date (as defined by the Pension Plan), if applicable; and | ||
(ii) | applying the actuarial factors provided by the Pension Plan, to convert the monthly retirement income to the form of payment elected by the Participant pursuant to Section 5.3. |
(a) | Initial Election. A Participant may elect the manner in which his Participant Benefit under the Plan will be paid to him under Section 5.2 in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Section. To make an election a Participant must file an election with the Committee (on a form or forms prescribed by the Committee). To be effective, the election under this Section must be filed with the Committee no later than the later of: (i) the time the Participant first begins participating in the Plan (or under any other plan required to be aggregated with this Plan pursuant to the requirements of Code Section 409A); or (ii) December 31, 2007. If no election is made or if the election is not timely or properly made, distribution will be made in the form of five annual installments. | ||
(b) | Change of Election. An election as to the manner of payment may not be changed after the payment has been made or installment payments have commenced. Prior to that time, a Participant may change his election by filing a new election form with the Committee; provided, however, that: (i) the new election will not take effect until at least 12 months after the date the new election is filed; (ii) the commencement of installment payments with respect to which such election is made must be deferred for a period of not less than five years from the date such payment would otherwise have been made; and (iii) the new election is filed at least 12 months prior to the date of the first scheduled payment under the Plan. |
(a) | Form and Time of Payment. In the event a Participant dies prior to the time his Participant Benefit under the Plan is distributed, his Participant Benefit will be paid to his designated beneficiary(ies) in five annual |
installments. Such distribution will commence within 120 days of the date of the Participants death. If the Participant dies after distribution of his Participant Benefit has commenced, his remaining installments, if any, will be paid to his designated beneficiary(ies). | |||
(b) | Designation of Beneficiaries. The Participant may designate a primary and contingent beneficiary(ies) to receive any amount payable under subsection 5.4(a). Such designation may be changed at any time for any reason by the Participant. If the Participant fails to designate a beneficiary, or if such designation will for any reason be illegal or ineffective, or if the designated beneficiary(ies) will not survive the Participant, his Participant Benefit under the Plan will be paid: (i) to his surviving spouse; (ii) if there is no surviving spouse, to the duly appointed and qualified executor or other personal representative of the Participant to be distributed in accordance with the Participants will or applicable intestacy law; or (iii) in the event there is no such representative appointed and qualified within 45 days after the Participants death, then to such persons as, at the date of death, would be entitled to share in the distribution of the Participants estate under the provisions of the applicable statutes then in force governing the descent of intestate property, in the proportions specified in such statute. |
(a) | Domestic Relations Order. The time or schedule of a payment of a Participants Benefit may be accelerated to make a payment to an individual other than the Participant as may be necessary to fulfill a domestic relations order (as defined in Code Section 414(p)(1)(B)). | ||
(b) | Conflicts of Interest. The time or schedule of a payment of a Participants Benefit may be accelerated to the extent reasonably necessary to avoid the violation of an applicable Federal, state, local, or foreign ethics law or conflicts of interest law (including where such payment is reasonably necessary to permit the service provider to participate in activities in the normal course of his or her position in which the service provider would otherwise not be able to participate under an applicable rule). A payment is reasonably necessary to avoid the violation of Federal, state, local, or foreign ethics laws or conflicts of interest law if the payment is a necessary part of a course of action that results in compliance with a Federal, state, local, or foreign ethics law or conflicts of interest law that would be violated absent such course of action, regardless of whether |
other actions would also result in compliance with the Federal, state, local, or foreign ethics law or conflicts of interest law. | |||
(c) | Payment of Employment Taxes. The time or schedule of a payment of a Participants Benefit may be accelerated to pay the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) tax imposed under Code Sections 3101, 3121(a) and 3121(v)(2) on compensation deferred under the Plan. Additionally, the time or schedule of a payment of a Participants Benefit may be accelerated under the Plan to pay the income tax at source on wages imposed under Code Section 3401 or the corresponding withholding provisions of state, local or foreign tax laws as a result of payment of the FICA amount, and to pay the additional income tax at source on wages attributable to the pyramiding section 3401 wages and taxes. However, the total payment under this paragraph will not exceed the aggregate of the FICA amount and the related income tax withholding on such FICA amount. | ||
(d) | Income Inclusion Under Code Section 409A. The time or schedule of a payment of a Participants Benefit under the Plan may be accelerated to pay the income tax, interest and penalties imposed if the Plan fails to meet the requirements of Code Section 409A and related regulations; provided, however, such payment will not exceed the amount required to be included in income as a result of the failure to comply with the requirements of Code Section 409A and related regulations. | ||
(e) | Plan Termination. The time or schedule of payment or commencement of payments from a Participants Benefit may be accelerated when the Plan is terminated in accordance with one of the following and the Participants Benefit is calculated as if the Participant Separated from Service on the date of the Plan termination: |
(i) | The Company terminates the Plan within 12 months of a corporate dissolution taxed under Code Section 331, or with the approval of a bankruptcy court pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §503(b)(1)(A), provided that the amounts deferred under the Plan are included in the Participants gross incomes in the latest of the following years (or, if earlier, the taxable year in which the amount is constructively received). |
A. | The calendar year in which the Plan termination and liquidation occurs; | ||
B. | The first calendar year in which the amount is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture; or | ||
C. | The first calendar year in which the payment is administratively practicable. |
(ii) | The Companys irrevocable action to terminate and liquidate the Plan within the 30 days preceding or the 12 months following a change in control (as defined in Treasury Regulation 1.409A-3(i)(5)). For purposes of this subsection 5.5(b), the Plan may be terminated only if all agreements, methods, programs, and other arrangements sponsored by the Employer immediately after the time of the change in control with respect to which deferrals of compensation are treated as having been deferred under a single plan under Treasury Regulation 1.409A-1(c)(2) are terminated and liquidated with respect to each Participant that experienced the change in control, so that under the terms of the termination and liquidation all such Participants are required to receive all amounts of compensation deferred under the Plan and other arrangements within 12 months of the date the Company irrevocably takes all necessary action to terminate and liquidate the Plan and other arrangements. | ||
(iii) | The Companys termination and liquidation of the Plan, provided that: |
A. | The termination and liquidation does not occur proximate to a downturn in the financial health of the Company; | ||
B. | The Company terminates and liquidates all agreements, programs, and other arrangements that would be aggregated under Treasury Regulation §1.409A-1(c) if the Participant had deferrals of compensation under all of the agreements, methods, programs, and other arrangements that are terminated and liquidated; | ||
C. | No payments in liquidation of the Plan are made within 12 months of the date the Company takes all necessary action to irrevocably terminate and liquidate the plan other than payments that would be payable under the terms of the Plan if the action to terminate and liquidate the Plan had not occurred; | ||
D. | All payments are made within 24 months of the date the Company takes all necessary action to irrevocably terminate and liquidate the Plan; and | ||
E. | The Company does not adopt a new plan or arrangement that would be aggregated with any terminated and liquidated plan or arrangement under Treasury Regulation §1.409A-1(c) if the same Participant participated in both plans or arrangements, at any time within three years following the date the Company takes all necessary action |
(iv) | Such other events and conditions as the Internal Revenue Service may prescribe in generally applicable guidance published in the Internal Revenue Bulletin. |
(a) | The Committee will have all powers necessary to administer the Plan, including the power to construe and interpret the Plan documents; to decide all questions relating to an individuals eligibility to participate in the Plan; to determine whether a Participant has actually retired; to determine the amount, manner and timing of any distribution of benefits or withdrawal under the Plan; to resolve any claim for benefits in accordance with Article VIII, and to appoint or employ advisors, including legal counsel, to render advice with respect to any of the Committees responsibilities under the Plan. Any construction, interpretation or application of the Plan by the Committee will be final, conclusive and binding. All actions by the Committee will be taken pursuant to uniform standards applied to all persons similarly situated. | ||
(b) | Records and Reports. The Committee will be responsible for maintaining sufficient records to determine each Participants eligibility to participate in the Plan. | ||
(c) | Rules and Decisions. The Committee may adopt such rules as it deems necessary, desirable or appropriate in the administration of the Plan. All rules and decisions of the Committee will be applied uniformly and consistently to all Participants in similar circumstances. When making a determination or calculation, the Committee will be entitled to rely upon information furnished by a Participant or beneficiary, the Employers or the legal counsel of an Employer. | ||
(d) | Application and Forms for Benefits. The Committee may require a Participant or beneficiary to complete and file with it an application for a benefit, and to furnish all pertinent information requested by it. The Committee may rely upon all such information so furnished to it, including the Participants or beneficiarys current mailing address. |
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(a) | The specific reasons for the adverse determination; | ||
(b) | Reference to the specific Plan provisions (including any internal rules, guidelines, protocols, criteria, etc.) on which the determination is based; | ||
(c) | A description of any additional material or information necessary for the Claimant to complete the claim and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary; and | ||
(d) | A description of the Plans review procedures and the time limits applicable to such procedures. |
(a) | The Claimant, or his authorized representative, may submit written comments, documents, records and any other information relating to the claim for benefits; and | ||
(b) | The Claimant will be provided, upon request of the Claimant or his authorized representative, reasonable access to, and copies of, all documents, records and other information relevant to the Claimants Benefit Claim, without regard to whether those documents, records, and information were considered or relied upon in making the Adverse Benefit Determination that is the subject of the appeal. |
(a) | The specific reasons for the adverse determination on review; | ||
(b) | Reference to the specific Plan provisions (including any internal rules, guidelines, protocols, criteria, etc.) on which the benefit determination on review is based; | ||
(c) | A statement that the Claimant is entitled to receive, upon request and free of charge, reasonable access to, and copies of, all documents, records and other information relevant to the Claimants Benefit Claim, without regard to whether those records were considered or relied upon in making the Adverse Benefit Determination on review, including any reports, and the identities, of any experts whose advice was obtained. |
FIRST FINANCIAL CORPORATION | ||||
By: | /s/ Norman L. Lowery | |||
Norman L. Lowery, Chief Executive Officer | ||||
By: | /s/ Michael A. Carty | |||
Item 1. | Determine the vested Normal Benefit payable to the Participant under the Pension Plan, calculated as of the Participants Normal Retirement Date on the basis of the normal form of payment as defined in the Pension Plan (monthly retirement income) without taking into account the offset by the Participants ESOP Monthly Benefit, and without regard to the limitations imposed by Code Sections 401(a)(17) and 415 and including deferrals to the Frozen EDCP and 2005 EDCP as compensation. | |
Item 2. | Determine the vested Normal Benefit payable to the Participant under the Pension Plan, calculated as of the Participants Normal Retirement Date, on the basis of the normal form of payment as defined in the Pension Plan (monthly retirement income) without taking into account the offset by the Participants ESOP Monthly Benefit (as defined in Section 3.6 of the Pension Plan). | |
Item 3. | Subtract Item 2 from Item 1 to determine the amount of the monthly retirement income benefit that is not payable to the Participant under the Pension Plan due to the restrictions imposed by the Code. | |
Item 4. | Determine the unadjusted monthly benefit that would be payable to the Participant under the Frozen ESRP. | |
Item 5. | Subtract Item 4 from Item 3. | |
Item 6. | Determine the Participants Supplemental Benefit payable due to contributions under Section 3.3 of the 2005 EDCP and earnings thereon and convert it to a monthly annuity in the same manner as provided for in the Pension Plan with regard to the Participants benefit under the ESOP. | |
Item 7. | Subtract Item 6 from Item 5 to determine the unadjusted benefit payable under this Plan. | |
Item 8. | Adjust the amounts determined in Item 7 by the actuarial adjustments provided in the Pension Plan to convert the monthly retirement income to the form of benefit elected by the Participant and to adjust for payments prior to or after the Participants Normal Retirement Date, if applicable. |
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Pension Payments Exceed ESOP Payments | ||||||
Item 1 | Calculate Pension Plan Monthly Benefit without Code Limits | $ | ||||
Item 2 | Calculate Pension Plan Monthly Benefit with normal limits under the Code | $ | ||||
Item 3 | Subtract Item 2 from Item 1 | $ | ||||
Item 4 | Calculate the benefit payable under the frozen ESRP | $ | ||||
Item 5 | Subtract Item 4 from Item 3 | $ | ||||
Item 6 | Calculate the unadjusted monthly benefit payable under the 2005 EDCP | $ | ||||
Item 7 | Subtract Item 6 from Item 5 | $ | ||||
Item 8 | Adjust Item 7 by the actuarial factors provided by the Pension Plan to convert the monthly retirement income to the form of benefit selected by the Participant and to adjust for payments received prior to or after Normal Retirement Date. | $ | ||||
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