NEW PLAN ORDER FORM for companies with no previously established 401k plan or other company retirement plan
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1) Will this be your company's first 401k plan, or are you replacing an already-existing plan? |
First 401k plan
Already-existing 401k plan to be converted to a 401k Easy Online plan (STOP!!! Please use our Conversion Plan Order Form instead of this New Plan Order Form if your company already has a 401k plan. Thank You.) |
| 2) Company name: |
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| 3) Contact person: |
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| 4) Title: |
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| 5) Phone: |
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| 6) Fax: |
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| 7) E-mail: |
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| 8) Your 401k decision-making role: |
Sole decision maker
Making recommendation
Leading committee to gather information
Member of committee to evaluate options
Interested employee
Unsure. Please contact me with help regarding this item.
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| 9) Company address: |
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| 10) City: |
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| 11) State: |
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| 12) Zip: |
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| 9-12alt) Company mail-to address: |
Use address listed above as mail-to address
Use other address:
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| 13) Federal ID Number: |
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| 14) Date business commenced: |
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| 15) Type of entity: |
Please indicate your company's type:
C Corporation
Professional Service Corporation
S Corporation
Limited Liability Company taxed as (check one)...
Sole Proprietorship
Partnership
other:
Is your company a member of a controlled group?
Yes
No
Unsure. Please contact me regarding this question.
Is your company a member of an affiliated service group?
Yes
No
Unsure. Please contact me regarding this question.
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| 16) # of employees on payroll: |
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| 17) Fiscal year on which business is run: |
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| 18) Computer system: |
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| PART II: PLAN INFORMATION... |
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Complete the below ONLY if the 401k Easy Online plan will be your company's FIRST retirement plan ever.
If your company already has a retirement plan and will be having 401k Easy Online replace that plan, please use our Conversion Plan Order Form instead of this New Plan Order Form. Thank You. |
| 19) Potential size, in number of employees, of your 401k Easy Online plan: |
Number of full-time employees currently on your payroll:
2-4
5-10
11-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
more than 50
Unsure. Please contact me regarding this item.
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| 20) Plan Administrator: |
Most 401k Easy Online customers name their company as their official 401k Plan Administrator, though you do have the option of designating an outside party to handle your 401k plan administration via 401k Easy Online.
Who will serve as Plan Administrator for your 401k Easy Online plan? If you don't know, mark the "Unsure. Please contact..." box.
Our company: Have our employees contact (name, title) by calling or e-mailing when need be.
Outside party: Contact (name, title) of (company name) ; tax ID number is ; phone number is , e-mail address is , mailing address is (including city, state and zip) .
Unsure. Please contact us about naming a Plan Administrator.
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| 21) Plan Trustee(s): |
Who at your company will serve as your 401k Easy Online plan's Trustee(s)? Please include his/her/their title(s) (such as "CFO"), as applicable. If you are unsure who will serve as your plan's trustee(s), mark the "Unsure. Please contact..." box below.
Trustee(s) phone number(s):
Unsure. Please contact us about naming a Plan Administrator.
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22) Compliance test preferences: (remember, just mark "Unsure" if you want help with any item; compliance test preferences is something people new to 401k plans usually need help with) |
You have some flexibility regarding the parameters by which the IRS compliance tests your plan will have to pass each year are run. Your 401k Easy Online software will have your preferences hardwired into it so you can run accurate compliance tests as often as you like (we recommend monthly). 401k Easy Online will keep you apprised of your plan's health and help ensure your plan passes its critical year-end tests.
The determination of Highly-Compensated versus Non-Highly-Compensated Employees for your plan will be based on the previous year's wages. Would you like your plan to limit the definition of Highly-Compensated Employees to "the top 20% of employee"?
Not applicable: Safe harbor plan
Yes (recommended)
No
Unsure. Please contact me regarding this item.
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| 23) Age requirement for participation in 401k Easy Online plan: |
What age requirement do you want for your 401k Easy Online plan?
None
21
Other (please specify):
Unsure. Please contact me regarding this item.
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| 24) Length of Service requirement for your 401k Easy Online plan? |
What length of service requirement do you want for participation in your 401k Easy Online plan?
None
Three (3) months of service with the company
Six (6) months of service with the company
One (1) year of service with the company
Other (please specify):
Unsure. Please contact me regarding our 401k Easy Online plan length of service requirement.
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| 25) Participation exclusions: |
Would you like to exclude any categories of employees from participation in your 401k Easy Online plan?
Yes
No
Unsure. Please contact me regarding participation exclusions used in our existing company plan.
If "Yes", please identify the classes of employees you'd like to exclude from participation in your 401k Easy Online plan: (check all that apply)
Union members
Non-resident aliens
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| 26) Automatic enrollment: |
Do you want your 401k Easy Online plan to use automatic enrollment?
Yes No Unsure. Please contact me regarding this item.
If "Yes", what would you like the default contribution rate to be for automatically enrolled participants?
Not applicable. Do not want auto enrollment used in our 401k Easy Online plan.
3% 4% 5%
Unsure. Please contact me regarding using auto enrollment in our 401k Easy Online plan.
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27) Employer contributions:
If you plan to run your 401k as a safe harbor plan, please indicate any relevant safe harbor employer contributions at item 32 of this order form and DO NOT include your safe harbor contribution formula(s) herein under item 27 Employer Contributions. (click for more information)
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Your company can contribute to plan participants' accounts in any of three ways:
(1) regular matching contributions,
(2) discretionary employer contributions, and/or
(3) qualified nonelective contributions.
Regular matching contributions (RMCs) are defined in terms of participant's elective contribution (e.g., 50¢ contributed by the employer for each dollar contributed by the plan participant). Discretionary employer contributions (DECs) are basically profit-sharing contributions, although the employer's contribution does not have to be limited to net profits. Qualified nonelective contributions (QNECs) are allocated on the basis of compensation or some other variable aside from a participant's elective contribution; they are made to ALL eligible employees regardless of whether or not the employee contributes to or participates in the 401k plan — unless the QNEC is being used to satisfy ADP or ACP test corrections. As for vesting, RMCs and DECs can be subject to vesting schedules, but QNECs are always 100% vested to employees' accounts when made.
1) Will your company be making any REGULAR MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS to employees' accounts?
No regular matching contributions will be made.
Our company MAY make matching contributions equal to a discretionary percentage that our company will determine at a later time.
Our company WILL make regular matching contributions at a rate of % (e.g., 50%) to each dollar our participants defer into the plan.
Our company WILL make regular matching contributions at a rate of % (e.g., 50%) to each dollar our participants defer into the plan, up to a maximum annual matching contribution of (check and complete one):
AND our company (check one) will will not contribute an additional discretionary percentage, to be determined by our company.
Other:
Unsure. Please contact me regarding regular matching contributions.

2) Would your company like to have the option of being able to make DISCRETIONARY EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS (i.e., profit-sharing contributions) to employees' accounts?
No, we do not want the option of even possibly making profit-sharing contributions.
Yes, our company will POSSIBLY make profit-sharing contributions in an amount to be determined by our company. AND DOES NOT want contribution amounts to be limited to current or accumulated net profit. (Checking this option in no way obligates your company to making any actual contributions, it simply leaves open the possibility that you might.)
Yes, our company will POSSIBLY make profit-sharing contributions in an amount to be determined by our company AND DOES want contribution amounts to be limited to current or accumulated net profit. (Checking this option in no way obligates your company to making any actual contributions, it simply leaves open the possibility that you might.)
Unsure. Please contact me regarding profit-sharing contributions.

3) Would your company like to have the option of being able to make QUALIFIED NONELECTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS to employees' accounts?
No (except as needed for discrimination test corrections).
Yes, our company will POSSIBLY make qualified nonelective contributions in an amount to be determined by our company.
(Checking this option in no way obligates your company to making any actual contributions, it simply leaves open the possibility that you might.)
Yes, our company will make qualified nonelective contributions equal to % of the total compensation of all participants eligible to share in the allocations.
Unsure. Please contact me regarding profit-sharing contributions.
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| 28) Vesting of employer contributions: |
"Vesting" refers to ownership. For instance, if you pick Schedule D below and a plan participant leaves your company after 2 years, he or she will only be entitled to 20% of any relevant employer contributions made by your company to his or her account. The remainder will go into a pool that your company can choose to use for employer contributions owed to other participants.
What vesting formula do you want to use for any employer contributions? Mark your choice for any profit-sharing contributions in column P-S Contribs and for any matching contributions in column Match Contribs.
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| 29) Loans: |
Do you want your 401k Easy Online plan to allow for 401k loans (that is, for participants to borrow from their accounts)? (click for more information)
Yes
No
Unsure. Please contact me regarding this item. |
30) Investments:
INVESTMENT TYPE
(view investment listings) |
Please indicate the type of investments you want for your 401k Easy Online plan: (click for a pop-up window about your 401k Easy Online investment options)
Self-Directed Brokerage Accounts only
No-Load Mutual Funds only
Load Mutual Funds only
Unsure. Please contact me regarding the type of investments to offer within our 401k Easy Online plan. |
31) Investments:
INVESTMENT FAMILY
(view investment listings) |
Please indicate the family of mutual funds and/or the brokerage account you wish to offer within your 401k Easy Online plan (for example, T. Rowe Price mutual funds or Charles Schwab OneSource brokerage accounts). If you have not already done so, you should look through our investment listings to view your options or simply contact us for help by clicking the "Unsure..." button below.
Unsure. Please contact me regarding the exact investment family and/or brokerage account to offer within our 401k Easy Online plan. |
| 32) Safe Harbor Designations: |
The IRS allows 401k plan sponsors an alternative to subjecting their 401k plans to annual discrimination testing. The safe harbor method of plan operation lets employers instead make certain contributions to the plan, with immediate vesting of the contributions to employees' 401k accounts. (click for more information)
Do you want to operate your 401k Easy Online plan as a safe harbor 401k plan?
Yes
No (you can skip the rest of this section 32)
Unsure. Please contact me regarding operating our 401k plan as a safe harbor plan.
If you are choosing to operate your 401k plan as a safe harbor plan, which employer contribution formula would you like to employ?
Not applicable (don't want to use the safe harbor method)
Make a qualified nonelective contribution equal to 3% of compensation to each eligible employee's account. (Note: Qualified nonelective contributions are made to ALL eligible employees accounts, regardless of whether the persons participate in the company 401k plan.)
Make a dollar-for-dollar matching contribution to non-highly-compensated employees on salary deferrals up to 3% of compensation and 50¢ to the dollar matching contributions to non-highly compensated employees on salary deferrals of 3% to 5% of compensation, making sure not to exceed these rates in any matching contributions made to highly compensated employees. (Note: Matching contributions, because they're based upon salary deferral amounts, are made only to currently-participating employees' 401k accounts.)
Unsure. Please contact me regarding the type of 401k safe harbor contribution to make.
If you are choosing to operate your 401k plan as a safe harbor MATCHING CONTRIBUTION plan, how often do you want your employer matching contributions to be made?
Not applicable (don't want to use the safe harbor method)
Annually
Per payroll period
Per month
Per quarter
Unsure. Please contact me regarding the frequency of making our 401k safe harbor employer contributions. |