CRH Americas 401(k) PLAN
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
December 31, 2020 and 2019
NOTE 1 - DESCRIPTION OF PLAN (Continued)
Vesting: Participants are immediately vested in their contributions and the matching contributions plus actual earnings thereon. Vesting in the profit sharing contributions, plus earnings thereon, is generally based on a five-year graded schedule at 20% per year, though some participating employers have other vesting schedules for the profit sharing accounts, as detailed in the Plan documents. For non-elective contributions, certain participating employers of the Plan have different vesting schedules as detailed in the Plan documents.
Payment of Benefits: On termination of service due to death, disability, or retirement, a participant may elect to receive a lump-sum amount equal to the value of the participant’s vested interest in his or her account in monthly, quarterly, or annual installments. For termination of service for other reasons such as in-service and hardship withdrawals, a participant may receive the value of the vested interest in his or her account as a lump-sum distribution.
Notes Receivable from Participants: Participants may borrow from their pretax and rollover accounts a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum of $50,000 or 50% of their pretax and rollover account balance, whichever is less. The loans are secured by the balance in the participant’s account. The interest rate charged to the participant on a loan is updated quarterly and effective on the first business day of the next calendar quarter. The rate is based on the Reuters prime rate with specific deltas. The delta rate is one percent added to, or subtracted from, the prime rate. Principal and interest are paid through payroll deductions.
Forfeitures: When certain terminations of participation in the Plan occur, the nonvested portion of the participant’s account, as defined by the Plan, represents a forfeiture. The Plan document permits the use of forfeitures to either reduce future employer contributions or pay Plan expenses for the plan year. However, of a participant is reemployed and fulfills certain requirements, as defined in the Plan document, the account will be reinstated. At December 31, 2020, and 2019, the forfeiture account balance was $1,264,928 and $1,793,979, respectively. During 2020, employer contributions were reduced by $2,500,000 from forfeited nonvested accounts to fund contributions in 2021 related to the Plan year 2020.
Administrative Changes due to CARES Act - In March 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) was enacted, and certain provisions of the CARES Act that pertain to retirement plans were implemented. As a result Plan participants impacted by the Coronavirus were able to:
| • | | Withdraw, penalty free, up to $100,000 of vested account balances before December 31, 2020. |
| • | | Defer current active loan payments for the 2020 plan year. |
Plan Mergers: The Granite Precast 401(k) and Primex Manufacturing Corp. 401(k) Plans (“Predecessor Plans”) merged into the Plan. Employees of these Predecessor Plans became eligible for the CRH Americas 401K Plan on January 1, 2020. During the year ended December 31, 2020, these Predecessor Plans’ net assets of $1,975,734 were transferred to the Plan.
Effective June 2020, a subsidiary of the Company was sold and the employees in that subsidiary were no longer participants in the Plan.
As a result, participants account balances of $4,947,424 were transferred out of the Plan.