Producers Service Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust

Left in 2021, 2022? You may be owed employer money

• In plan year 2021, active participants fell from 81 to 63 (22%), and 5 people left before they were fully vested. When a plan loses about 20% or more of its participants in a year, the IRS presumes a partial plan termination (Revenue Ruling 2007-43). Everyone who left in that period must then be fully vested in the employer's contributions. A 2021 law (Consolidated Appropriations Act, section 209) can excuse a drop between March 2020 and March 2021 if the plan had rehired enough people by March 31, 2021. Filing
• The plan ended in plan year 2022. When a plan ends, everyone who still has an account must be fully vested in the employer's contributions (Internal Revenue Code section 411(d)(3)). If you left within about five years before that with employer money not yet vested, it may not have been forfeited yet, and may be yours. Filing

This is a reason to ask the plan, not a finding. The plan decides, and it may show the drop was routine.

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Check your years. We show whether the plan merged or moved money while you were there, and draft the letter to the plan that holds it now.

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