Retirement Plans

LCNB participates in a noncontributory defined benefit multi-employer retirement plan that covers substantially all regular full-time employees hired before January 1, 2009. Employees hired before this date who received a benefit reduction under certain amendments to the defined benefit retirement plan receive an automatic contribution of 5% or 7% of their annual compensation, depending on the sum of an employee's age and vesting service, into their defined contribution plans (401(k) plans), regardless of the contributions made by the employees. These contributions are made annually and these employees do not receive any employer matches to their 401(k) contributions.

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.

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, 2016 and 2015 are as follows (in thousands):



	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2016		2015
Qualified noncontributory defined benefit retirement plan	$	220	270
401(k) plan	83		87

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, 2016 and 2015 are summarized as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2016		2015
Service cost	$	10	9
Interest cost	19		17
Amortization of unrecognized net loss	42		42
Net periodic pension cost	$	71	68

Amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax, at March 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015 for the nonqualified defined benefit retirement plan consists of (in thousands):

March 31, 2016

December 31,
2015

Net actuarial loss