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The question of vesting comes up very often. What is vesting?

Simply stated, testing means ownership. You may be given something, for example, a cash balance plan contribution, but you don’t actually have ownership or the ability to use it until you’re fully vested.

Most cash balance plans come with a one-year entrance date and three-year vesting. So if you start to go to a company, you cannot get a contribution to the plan until you’ve worked with the company for one year. Once you get that contribution, you can’t use it until you’ve worked with a company for three years. This is when you meet the vesting requirements.

So if you worked at a company for less than three years and left the company, the balance in your cash balance plan gets forfeited and is distributed back to the employer to reduce future contributions. However, if you’ve been at the company for at least three years and you quit the company, then you can roll that balance over into an IRA or 401(k) plan.

If you set up a cash balance plan, you also have an option to do a two-year entry date along with two-year vesting. So this will restrict contributions upfront for entrance purposes but will allow the plan to vest one year before the three-year window. This can make sense for a lot of companies. But it just depends on the employer and the mix of employees.

When you set up a cash balance plan, you have the option to structure vesting in a few different ways. Most people will use the options noted above, but she still could do immediate vesting if you wanted to.

The IRS establishes minimum vesting requirements for employees. An employer would occasionally like to have five or ten-year vesting for their employees. But this just isn’t legal or able to structure correctly within the IRS guidelines.

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