Retirement Plans

LCNB participates in a noncontributory defined benefit retirement multi-employer plan that covers substantially all regular full-time employees hired before January 1, 2009.

Employees of LCNB also participate in a defined contribution retirement plan. Employees hired on or after January 1, 2009 receive a 50% employer match on their contributions into the 401(k) plan, up to a maximum LCNB contribution of 3% of each individual employee's annual compensation. Employees hired before January 1, 2009 who received a benefit reduction under certain amendments to the defined benefit retirement plan receive an automatic contribution of 5% or 7% of annual compensation, depending on the sum of an employee's age and vesting service, into the 401(k) plan, regardless of the contributions made by the employees. This contribution is made annually and these employees do not receive any employer matches to their 401(k) contributions.

Funding and administrative costs of the qualified noncontributory defined benefit retirement plan and 401(k) plan charged to pension and other employee benefits in the consolidated statements of income for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 are as follows (in thousands):

Certain highly compensated employees participate in a nonqualified defined benefit retirement plan. The nonqualified plan ensures that participants receive the full amount of benefits to which they would have been entitled under the noncontributory defined benefit retirement plan in the absence of limits on benefit levels imposed by certain sections of the Internal Revenue Code.

The components of net periodic pension cost of the nonqualified defined benefit retirement plan for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 are summarized as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2014	2013
Service cost	17	18
Interest cost	15	11
Amortization of unrecognized net (gain) loss	—	6
Amortization of unrecognized prior service cost	4	7
Net periodic pension cost	36	42

Amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax, at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 for the nonqualified defined benefit retirement plan consists of (in thousands):

For the Three Months
Ended March 31,

Qualified noncontributory defined benefit retirement plan