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                               Payments                End of Year           Premium
             Policy Year  Employer   Executive   Cash Value    Dividend     1-Year Term

                 1        $2,000      $24,710       $2,000         $0           $0.00

                 2         1,000       25,670        3,000          0            0.00
                 3        20,000        6,710       23,000       2,330         137.66
                 4        21,000        5,710       44,000       3,130         288.18

                 5        20,000        6,710       64,000       3,670         458.22

                 6        22,000        4,710       86,000       4,500         674.20
                 7        21,000        5,710      107,000       5,340         918.06
                 8        22,000        4,710      129,000       6,110        1,201.02

                 9        22,000        4,710      151,000       6,760        1,547.76

                10        22,000        4,710      173,000       7,496        1,937.50
                11        22,000        4,710      195,000       8,290        2,386.78
                12        23,000        3,710      218,000       9,170        2,916.78

                13        22,000        4,710      240,000      10,000        3,513.40

                14        23,000        3,710      263,000      10,830        4,210.70
                15        23,000        3,710      286,000      11,690        5,007.88
                16        23,000        3,710      309,000      12,590        5,917.28

                17        23,000        3,710      332,000      14,800        6,951.42

                18        23,000        3,710      355,000      15,710        8,121.72
                19        22,000        4,710      377,000      16,670        9,427.36
                20        23,000        3,710      400,000      17,560       10,934.94

            Table 6-15. Split-dollar insurance, $1 million policy

            summary plan description. Since split-dollar insurance is a welfare, not a pension, plan, it is
            also probably exempt from the participating, funding, vesting, and plan termination require-
            ments of this same law.
               In addition to being a definite status symbol, a split-dollar insurance program can be of
            real value when there is a very large estate liability (e.g., a significant amount of deferred
            stock). Probably one of the greatest illustrations of need is when a company has deferred a
            portion of the executive’s pay until after retirement and such payment is made on a scheduled
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