Big Lots 401(k) and pension plans

Big Lots, Inc., Columbus, OH. EIN 06-1119097. Annual reports 2009–2024.

Big Lots, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Big Lots Savings Plan, with 22,279 participants and $312 million in assets in 2024. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2016.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 22,279
Plan assets: $312 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 2
Industry: Retail

All 2 plans

Active plans first

Big Lots Savings Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 06-1119097
Participants (2024): 22,279
Net assets (2024): $312 million
Recordkeeper: FidelityEarlier: Wells Fargo (2010–2015), Wachovia Bank (2009)
Plan administrator: Big Lots, Inc.
4900 E Dublin Granville Road
Columbus, OH 43081
(614) 278-6613As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1998

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	22,279	$312 million	Fidelity
2023	24,093	$333 million	Fidelity
2022	26,056	$296 million	Fidelity
2021	25,618	$369 million	Fidelity
2020	28,120	$328 million	Fidelity
2019	27,634	$291 million	Fidelity
2018	27,190	$249 million	Fidelity
2017	27,109	$262 million	Fidelity
2016	19,809	$223 million	Fidelity
2015	19,986	$201 million	Wells Fargo
2014	21,191	$202 million	Wells Fargo
2013	20,487	$195 million	Wells Fargo
2012	32,897	$175 million	Wells Fargo
2011	33,539	$173 million	Wells Fargo
2010	31,511	$168 million	Wells Fargo
2009	30,547	$159 million	Wachovia Bank

Big Lots Defined Benefit Pension Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenClosed

Closed. The plan filed its final annual report for 2016, which means its assets were paid out or moved and it no longer exists.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 06-1119097
Participants (2015): 1,634
Net assets (2015): $62.2 million
Administered by: PNC Institutional Asset Management2016
Plan administrator: Big Lots, Inc.
C/O Tax Department, 300 Phillipi Road
Columbus, OH 43228
(614) 278-6800As filed for 2016
In effect since: September 17, 1974

Year by year, 2009 to 2016

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2016	0	$0	PNC Institutional Asset Management
2015	1,634	$62.2 million	not listed
2014	1,742	$65.2 million	not listed
2013	1,867	$55.4 million	not listed
2012	1,904	$59.7 million	not listed
2011	2,002	$57.3 million	not listed
2009	2,276	$57.9 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Big Lots Savings Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((614) 278-6613). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan closed, unclaimed balances usually went to an IRA in your name, to the PBGC's missing participants program, or to state unclaimed property. Here is how to check each one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

All 2 plans

Big Lots Savings Plan

Big Lots Defined Benefit Pension Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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