CASH AMERICA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
AMENDED AND RESTATED
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2009
CASH AMERICA INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
Effective as of
the 1st day of January, 2009, Cash America International, Inc. (the
“Controlling Company”), hereby amends and restates the
Cash America International, Inc. Supplemental Executive Retirement
Plan as set forth herein (the “Plan”).
A.
Background . The Plan was initially adopted effective
as of January 1, 2003, and was amended and restated effective
as of January 1, 2003. Effective January 1, 2009, the
Plan, as set forth in this document, is intended and should be
construed as a restatement and continuation of the Plan as
previously in effect.
B.
Goal . The Controlling Company desires to provide
certain of its designated key management employees (and those of
its affiliated companies that participate in the Plan) with such
amounts of deferred compensation as the terms of the Plan may
permit and as the Controlling Company may determine.
C.
Purpose . The purpose of the Plan document is to set
forth the terms and conditions pursuant to which these awards of
deferred compensation may be made and to describe the nature and
extent of the employees’ rights to such amounts.
D.
Type of Plan . The Plan constitutes an unfunded,
nonqualified deferred compensation plan that benefits certain
designated employees who are within a select group of key
management or highly compensated employees. It is intended that
this Plan comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
To amend and
restate the Plan with the purposes and goals as hereinabove
described, the Controlling Company hereby sets forth the terms and
provisions of the Plan as follows:
CASH AMERICA INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
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Account
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1
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Active
Participant
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Administrative
Committee
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Affiliate
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Beneficiary
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Board
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1
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Change in
Control
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Code
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Company
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Compensation
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Compensation
Committee
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Controlling
Company
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2
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Discretionary-Eligible Employee
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2
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Discretionary
Contributions
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2
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Effective
Date
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2
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Eligible
Employee
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2
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ERISA
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2
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FICA
Tax
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3
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Financial
Hardship
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Investment
Election
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Investment
Funds
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Key
Employee
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3
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Payment
Date
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Participant
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Plan
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Plan
Year
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4
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Pre-409A
Account
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Post-409A
Account
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Savings
Plan
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Separate from
Service or Separation from Service
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(a) Leaves of
Absence
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(b) Status
Change
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(c) Termination
of Employment
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Supplemental-Eligible Employee
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Supplemental
Contributions
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Surviving
Spouse
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Trust or Trust
Agreement
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Trust
Fund
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Trustee
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5
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Valuation
Date
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5
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Years of
Service
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ARTICLE II
ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
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Initial
Eligibility Requirements
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(a)
Supplemental Contributions
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(b)
Discretionary Contributions
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Procedure for
Admission
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Cessation of
Eligibility
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ARTICLE III
PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS AND CREDITING OF
CONTRIBUTIONS
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Participants’ Accounts
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(a)
Establishment of Accounts
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(b) Nature of
Contributions and Accounts
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(c) Several
Liabilities
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(d) General
Creditors
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Supplemental
Contributions
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(a) Crediting
of Supplemental Contributions
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(b) Amount of
Supplemental Contributions
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Discretionary
Contributions
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Debiting of
Distributions
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Crediting of
Earnings
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Value of
Account
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Vesting
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(a) Time of
Vesting
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(b) Change in
Control
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(c) Job
Abolishment
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(d)
Forfeiture
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Notice to
Participants of Account Balances
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Good Faith
Valuation Binding
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Errors and
Omissions in Accounts
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ARTICLE IV
INVESTMENT FUNDS
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Selection by
Administrative Committee
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Participant
Direction of Deemed Investments
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(a) Nature of
Participant Direction
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(b) Investment
of Contributions
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(c) Investment
of Existing Account Balances
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(d)
Administrative Committee Discretion
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ARTICLE V
PAYMENT OF POST-409A ACCOUNT BALANCES
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Amount of
Benefit Payments for Post-409A Account
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Timing and Form
of Distribution of Post-409A Account
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(a) General
Payment Date
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(b) General
Payment Form
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(c)
Modification of Defaults
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Cashout of
Post-409A Accounts
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(a)
Generally
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(b)
Documentation of Determination
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(c) Six Month
Delay for Key Employees
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Medium of
Payment for Post-409A Accounts
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Death Benefits
for Post-409A Accounts
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Hardship
Withdrawals from Post-409A Accounts
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Taxes
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(a) Amounts
Payable Whether or Not Account is in Pay Status
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(b) Amounts
Payable Only if Account is in Pay Status
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Offset of
Post-409A Account by Amounts Owed to the Company
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No Acceleration
of Post-409A Account Payments
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ARTICLE VI
PAYMENT OF PRE-409A ACCOUNT BALANCES
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Benefit
Payments Upon Termination of Service for Reasons Other Than
Death
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Timing of
Distribution
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(a) General
Rule
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(b) Election to
Delay Benefit Commencement Date
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Form of
Distribution
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(a) Single-Sum
Payment
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(b) Annual
Installments
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Form of
Assets
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Death
Benefits
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Withdrawals
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(a) Hardship
Withdrawals
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(b) Withdrawals
with Forfeiture
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Taxes
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Offset of
Benefit by Amounts Owed to the Company
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ARTICLE VII
CLAIMS
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Initial
Claim
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(a)
Rights
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(b)
Procedure
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Appeal
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Satisfaction of
Claims
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ARTICLE VIII
SOURCE OF FUNDS; TRUST
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Source of
Funds
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Trust
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Funding
Prohibition under Certain Circumstances
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ARTICLE IX
RIGHTS AND DUTIES UNDER THE PLAN
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Controlling
Company Action
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Administrative
Committee Organization and Action
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Rights and
Duties
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Compensation,
Indemnity and Liability
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ARTICLE X
AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION
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Amendments
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Freezing or
Termination of Plan
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Freezing
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(b)
Termination
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ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
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Beneficiary
Designation
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(a)
General
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(b) No
Designation or Designee Dead or Missing
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Distribution
pursuant to a Domestic Relations Order
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Taxation
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Elections Prior
to 2009
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No Employment
Contract
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Headings
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Gender and
Number
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Assignment of
Benefits
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Legally
Incompetent
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Governing
Law
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Exclusive
Benefit
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iv
For purposes of
the Plan, the following terms, when used with an initial capital
letter, shall have the meaning set forth below unless a different
meaning plainly is required by the context.
1.1
Account means, with respect to a Participant or
Beneficiary, the total dollar amount or value evidenced by the last
balance posted and actually credited in accordance with the terms
of the Plan to the account record established for such Participant
or Beneficiary. As determined by the Administrative Committee, an
Account may be subdivided into separate subaccounts.
1.2 Active
Participant means any Discretionary-Eligible Employee or
Supplemental-Eligible Employee, as applicable, who has become a
Participant and who has not been removed from active participation
in the Plan as described in Section 2.3.
1.3
Administrative Committee means the administrative
committee of the Savings Plan, or such other committee as shall be
appointed by the Board, which shall act on behalf of the
Controlling Company to administer the Plan, as provided for in
Article IX.
1.4
Affiliate means any corporation or other entity that is
required to be aggregated with the Controlling Company under Code
Sections 414(b) or (c). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes
of determining whether a Separation from Service has occurred, the
term “Affiliate” shall include the Controlling Company
and all entities that would be treated as a single employer with
the Controlling Company under Code Section 414(b) or (c), but
substituting “at least 50 percent” instead of
“at least 80 percent” each place it appears in
applying such rules.
1.5
Beneficiary means, with respect to a Participant, the
person(s) designated or identified in accordance with
Section 11.1 to receive any death benefits that may be payable
under the Plan upon the death of the Participant.
1.6
Board means the Board of Directors of the Controlling
Company.
1.7 Change
in Control means, with respect to the Controlling Company
or any of its Affiliates, one of the following:
(a) The
acquisition by any person (as such term is used in Sections 13(d)
and 14(d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended),
together with affiliates and associates of such person, whether by
purchase, tender offer, exchange, reclassification,
recapitalization, merger or otherwise, of a sufficient number of
shares of the voting securities of the Controlling Company (or any
other Affiliate) to first provide such person with 50 percent
or more of the combined voting power of the Controlling
Company’s (or any other Affiliate’s) then
outstanding
voting securities, which purchase is not approved by the Board (or
the board of directors or other managing body of any other
Affiliate);
(b) The
cessation, for any reason during any period of 24 consecutive
months, of individuals who at the beginning of such period
constitute the Board (or the board of directors or other managing
body of any other Affiliate), to constitute at least a majority
thereof, unless the election of each director who was not a
director at the beginning of such period has been approved in
advance by a majority of the continuing directors then in office;
or
(c) The
sale by the Controlling Company (or any other Affiliate), in one
transaction or a series of related transactions, whether in
liquidation, dissolution or otherwise, of assets or earning power
aggregating more than 50 percent of the assets or earning
power of the Controlling Company (or any other Affiliate) and its
subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other entity or
entities.
1.8
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and any succeeding federal tax provisions.
1.9
Company means the Controlling Company and any U.S.-based
Affiliates except any such Affiliates that affirmatively elect not
to participate in the Plan.
1.10
Compensation means, for a Participant for any Plan Year,
the total of (i) such Participant’s base salary earned
for such Plan Year, plus (ii) the lesser of the amount of his
targeted or actual annual cash bonus that was paid during such Plan
Year and earned in the preceding Plan Year, under a plan adopted by
the Company, which bonus is determined and payable on an annual
basis; provided, the amount in (ii) shall be deemed earned
during the Plan Year in which paid and prorated over each payroll
period in such Plan Year.
1.11
Compensation Committee means the Compensation Committee
of the Board.
1.12
Controlling Company means Cash America International,
Inc., a Texas corporation with its principal place of business in
Fort Worth, Texas.
1.13
Discretionary-Eligible Employee means, for a Plan Year,
an employee who is a member of a select group of key management or
highly compensated employees who is selected by the Controlling
Company as eligible to receive Discretionary Contributions under
the Plan.
1.14
Discretionary Contributions means the amount (if any)
credited to a Participant’s Account pursuant to
Section 3.3.
1.15
Effective Date means January 1, 2009, the effective
date of this amendment and restatement of the Plan. The Plan was
originally effective as of January 1, 2003.
1.16
Eligible Employee means an individual who is a
Discretionary-Eligible Employee or a Supplemental-Eligible
Employee.
1.17
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended.
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1.18 FICA
Tax means the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax
imposed under Code Sections 3101, 3121(a) and
3121(v)(2).
1.19
Financial Hardship means a severe financial hardship to
the Participant resulting from a sudden and unexpected illness or
accident of the Participant or the Participant’s dependent
[as defined in Code Section 152(a)], loss of the
Participant’s property due to casualty, or other similar
extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result
of events beyond the control of the Participant. Financial Hardship
shall be determined by the Administrative Committee on the basis of
the facts of each case, including information supplied by the
Participant in accordance with uniform guidelines prescribed from
time to time by the Administrative Committee; provided, the
Participant shall be deemed not to have a Financial Hardship to the
extent that such hardship is or may be relieved:
(a) Through
reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise;
(b) By
liquidation of the Participant’s assets, to the extent the
liquidation of assets would not itself cause severe financial
hardship; or
(c) By
cessation of deferrals under a Company plan.
Examples of
what are not considered to be unforeseeable emergencies include the
need to send a Participant’s child to college or the desire
to purchase a home.
1.20
Investment Election means a written, electronic or other
form of election pursuant to which a Participant may elect the
Investment Funds in which the amounts credited to his Account shall
be deemed to be invested.
1.21
Investment Funds means the investment funds selected
from time to time by the Administrative Committee for purposes of
determining the rate of return on amounts deemed invested pursuant
to the terms of the Plan.
1.22 Key
Employee means a Participant who is a “specified
employee” as defined in Code Section 409A as of: (i) for
a Participant who Separates from Service on or after the first day
of a Plan Year and before the first day of the fourth month of such
Plan Year, the December 31 of the second Plan Year preceding
the Plan Year in which such Participant Separates from Service; or
(ii) for any other Participant, the preceding
December 31. For purposes of identifying Key Employees, the
Participant’s compensation shall mean all of the items listed
in Treasury Regulations Section 1.415(c)-2(b), and excluding all of
the items listed in Treasury Regulations
Section 1.415(c)-2(c).
1.23
Payment Date means the date on which all or a portion of
the Participant’s benefit is scheduled to be paid (in the
case of a lump sum payment) or commenced (in the case of
installment payments) pursuant to the terms of the Plan.
1.24
Participant means any person who has been admitted to,
and has not been removed from, participation in the Plan pursuant
to the provisions of Article II.
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1.25
Plan means the Cash America International, Inc.
Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as contained herein and all
amendments hereto. For tax purposes and purposes of Title I of
ERISA, the Plan is intended to be an unfunded, nonqualified
deferred compensation plan covering certain designated employees
who are within a select group of key management or highly
compensated employees.
1.26 Plan
Year means the 12-consecutive-month period ending on
December 31 of each year.
1.27
Pre-409A Account means the portion of the
Participant’s Account attributable to the balance of the
Participant’s Account that was earned and vested as of
December 31, 2004.
1.28
Post-409A Account means the portion of the
Participant’s Account that is not the Pre-409A
Account.
1.29
Savings Plan means the Cash America International, Inc.
401(k) Savings Plan.
1.30
Separate from Service or Separation from
Service means that a Participant separates from service
with all Affiliates as defined in Code Section 409A and guidance
issued thereunder. Generally, a Participant separates from service
if the Participant dies, retires, or otherwise has a termination of
employment with all Affiliates, determined in accordance with the
following:
(a) Leaves of Absence . The employment relationship
is treated as continuing intact while the Participant is on
military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of absence if
the period of such leave does not exceed 6 months, or, if
longer, so long as the Participant retains a right to reemployment
with the Affiliates under an applicable statute or by contract. A
leave of absence constitutes a bona fide leave of absence only
while there is a reasonable expectation that the Participant will
return to perform services for the Affiliates. If the period of
leave exceeds 6 months and the Participant does not retain a
right to reemployment under an applicable statute or by contract,
the employment relationship is deemed to terminate on the first
date immediately following such 6-month period. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, where a leave of absence is due to any medically
determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to
result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period
of not less than 6 months, where such impairment causes the
Participant to be unable to perform the duties of his or her
position of employment or any substantially similar position of
employment, a 29-month period of absence shall be substituted for
such 6-month period.
(b) Status Change . Generally, if a Participant
performs services both as an employee and an independent
contractor, such Participant must separate from service both as an
employee, and as an independent contractor pursuant to standards
set forth in Treasury Regulations, to be treated as having a
Separation from Service. However, if a Participant provides
services as an employee and as a member of the Board of Directors,
the services provided as a director are not taken into account in
determining whether the Participant has a Separation from Service
as an employee for purposes of this Plan.
(c) Termination of Employment . Whether a termination
of employment has occurred for purposes of this section is
determined based on whether the facts and circumstances
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indicate that
the Affiliates and the Participant reasonably anticipate that
(i) no further services will be performed after a certain
date, or (ii) the level of bona fide services the Participant will
perform after such date (whether as an employee or as an
independent contractor) will permanently decrease to no more than
20 percent of the average level of bona fide services
performed (whether as an employee or an independent contractor)
over the immediately preceding 36-month period (or the full period
of services to the Affiliates if the Participant has been providing
services to the Affiliates less than 36 months). Facts and
circumstances to be considered in making this determination
include, but are not limited to, whether the Participant continues
to be treated as an employee for other purposes (such as
continuation of salary and participation in employee benefit
programs), whether similarly situated service providers have been
treated consistently, and whether the Participant is permitted, and
realistically available, to perform services for other service
recipients in the same line of business. For periods during which a
Participant is on a paid bona fide leave of absence and has not
otherwise terminated employment as described in subsection
(a) above, for purposes of this subsection the Participant is
treated as providing bona fide services at a level equal to the
level of services that the Participant would have been required to
perform to receive the compensation paid with respect to such leave
of absence. Periods during which a Participant is on an unpaid bona
fide leave of absence and has not otherwise terminated employment
are disregarded for purposes of this subsection (including for
purposes of determining the applicable 36-month (or shorter)
period).
1.31
Supplemental-Eligible Employee means an individual who
at any time during the Plan Year holds the position of Vice
President or any more senior position with the Company (and thereby
is a member of a select group of key management or highly
compensated employees of the Company); provided, such individual
shall be or become a Supplemental-Eligible Employee on the date
such criterion is first satisfied during such Plan Year.
1.32
Supplemental Contributions means the amount credited to
a Participant’s Account pursuant to
Section 3.2.
1.33
Surviving Spouse means, with respect to a Participant,
the person who is treated as married to such Participant under the
laws of the state in which the Participant resides. The
determination of a Participant’s Surviving Spouse shall be
made as of the date of such Participant’s death.
1.34 Trust
or Trust Agreement means the separate agreement or
agreements between the Controlling Company and the Trustee
governing the Trust Fund, and all amendments thereto.
1.35 Trust
Fund means the total amount of cash and other property held
by the Trustee (or any nominee thereof) at any time under the Trust
Agreement.
1.36
Trustee means the party or parties so designated from
time to time pursuant to the terms of the Trust
Agreement.
1.37
Valuation Date means each day on which the Trustee
operates, and is open to the public, for its business; provided,
the value of an Account on a day other than a Valuation Date shall
be the value determined as of the immediately preceding Valuation
Date.
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1.38 Years
of Service means, with respect to a Participant, his total
number of years of vesting service as determined under the terms of
the Savings Plan.
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ARTICLE II
ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
2.1 Initial
Eligibility Requirements .
(a) Supplemental Contributions . Each individual who
is a Supplemental-Eligible Employee immediately prior to the
Effective Date shall be eligible to receive Supplemental
Contributions. Each individual who becomes a Supplemental-Eligible
Employee on or after the Effective Date shall become eligible to
receive Supplemental Contributions as of the date that such
individual becomes a Supplemental-Eligible Employee.
(b) Discretionary Contributions . Each individual who
is a Discretionary-Eligible Employee immediately prior to the
Effective Date shall be eligible to receive Discretionary
Contributions. Each individual who becomes a Discretionary-Eligible
Employee on or after the Effective Date shall become eligible to
receive Discretionary Contributions as of the date that such
individual becomes a Discretionary-Eligible Employee.
2.2
Procedure for Admission .
The
Administrative Committee may require an Eligible Employee to
complete such forms and provide such data as the Administrative
Committee determines in its sole discretion. Such forms and data
may include, without limitation, the Eligible Employee’s
acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Plan and the
designation of a Beneficiary to receive any death benefits payable
hereunder.
2.3
Cessation of Eligibility .
Unless
otherwise designated by the Controlling Company, in its sole
discretion, each Participant who ceases to be an active
Discretionary-Eligible Employee or Supplemental-Eligible Employee
shall cease to be eligible to receive any Discretionary and/or
Supplemental Contributions, respectively, under the Plan for any
period following such date. The Controlling Company may, in its
sole discretion, remove an employee from active participation in
the Plan as of the first day of the following Plan Year (or any
other date specified by the Controlling Company), if, as of any day
during a Plan Year, he ceases to satisfy the criteria which
qualified him as an Eligible Employee. Even if his active
participation in the Plan ends, an employee shall remain an
inactive Participant in the Plan until the earlier of (i) the
date the full amount of his vested Account (if any) is distributed
from the Plan, or (ii) the date he again becomes an Eligible
Employee and recommences active participation in the Plan. During
the period of time that an employee is an inactive Participant in
the Plan, his vested Account shall continue to be credited with
earnings as provided for in Section 3.5.
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ARTICLE III
PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS AND CREDITING OF
CONTRIBUTIONS
3.1
Participants’ Accounts .
(a) Establishment of Accounts . The Administrative
Committee shall establish and maintain an Account on behalf of each
Participant. To the extent provided herein, each Account shall be
credited with Supplemental and Discretionary Contributions and
earnings attributable to such Account, and shall be debited by the
amount of all distributions. Each Account shall be subdivided into
a Pre-409A Account and a Post-409A Account, which shall be
separately accounted for under the Plan. Each Account of a
Participant shall be maintained until the vested value thereof has
been distributed to or on behalf of such Participant or his
Beneficiary.
(b) Nature of Contributions and Accounts . The
amounts credited to a Participant’s Account shall be
represented solely by bookkeeping entries. Except as provided in
Article VIII, no monies or other assets shall actually be set
aside for such Participant. All payments to a Participant or
Beneficiary under the Plan shall be made from the general assets of
the Company.
(c) Several Liabilities . The Administrative
Committee or the Controlling Company shall allocate the total
liability to pay benefits under the Plan among the Company in such
manner and amount as the Administrative Committee or the
Controlling Company (as applicable) in its sole discretion deems
appropriate.
(d) General Creditors . Any assets which may be
acquired by the Company in anticipation of its obligations under
the Plan shall be part of the general assets of the Company. The
Company’s obligation to pay benefits under the Plan
constitutes a mere promise of the Company to pay such benefits, and
a Participant or Beneficiary shall be and remain no more than an
unsecured, general creditor of the Company.
3.2
Supplemental Contributions .
(a) Crediting of Supplemental Contributions . As soon
as administratively feasible following the last day of each Plan
Year (or such other date as determined by the Controlling Company,
in its sole discretion), the Controlling Company may direct the
Administrative Committee to credit a Supplemental Contribution to
the Account of each Participant who was a Supplemental-Eligible
Employee for any period during such Plan Year and is employed by
the Company on the last day of such Plan Year (or such other period
as determined by the Controlling Company).
(b) Amount of Supplemental Contributions . The
Controlling Company shall determine the amount, if any, of the
Supplemental Contribution to be made for each Plan Year for each
Supplemental-Eligible Employee, and may determine different amounts
for specified Supplemental-Eligible Employees or groups of
Supplemental-Eligible Employees. However, the targeted (but
non-binding) amount of Supplemental Contribution for each
Plan
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Year shall be
determined as a percentage of each Supplemental-Eligible
Employee’s Compensation earned during such Plan Year (or the
portion thereof) while such Participant was a Supplemental-Eligible
Employee, with such targeted percentage determined by the
Compensation Committee from time to time. If a
Supplemental-Eligible Employee was a member of one group of
Supplemental-Eligible Employees for part of the Plan Year and a
member of one or more other groups of Supplemental-Eligible
Employees for another part of the Plan Year, the applicable
percentage for each group shall be applied to the portion of his
Compensation earned during the portion of the Plan Year he held
each such position, with the portion of his Compensation
attributable to an annual bonus prorated based on the number of
regular payroll periods for which the Participant earned
compensation for each eligible position during the year. If a
Participant is not a Supplemental-Eligible Employee during the
entire Plan Year but remains employed by the Company on the last
day of the Plan Year, the applicable percentage for that person
shall be applied to the portion of his Compensation earned during
the portion of the Plan Year during which he was a
Supplemental-Eligible Employee. For purposes of this subsection, a
Supplemental-Eligible Employee is deemed to earn compensation for a
particular payroll period on the regular pay date applicable to
that payroll period.
3.3
Discretionary Contributi
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