Journal Register East 401(k) and pension plans

Journal Register East, Inc., Fairless Hills, PA. EIN 22-2518039. Annual reports 2009–2012.

Journal Register East, Inc. has no active retirement plan on file. Its last annual report was for 2012. One of its pension plans was taken over by the PBGC.

Active plans: 0
Plans on file: 4
Industry: Information and media

All 4 plans

Active plans first

Journal Register Company Retirement Plan

Pension (defined benefit)Taken over by the PBGC

Taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on September 26, 2013, after the plan ended on April 5, 2013. The PBGC now pays the plan's benefits, up to legal limits (PBGC case 22236500).

Plan number: 007Employer EIN 22-2518039
Participants when it ended: 4,046
Administered by: Principal2011–2012
Who pays it now: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
1-800-400-7242PBGC Customer Contact Center
In effect since: January 1, 1968

Year by year, 2010 to 2012

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2012	4,080	$89.5 million	Principal
2011	4,154	$85.5 million	Principal
2010	4,240	$86.7 million	not listed

Journal Register Company, Inc. 401(k) Savings & Retirement Plan

401(k)Stopped filing

No annual report since the 2012 plan year, and no final report on record. The plan may have been merged, renamed or re-filed under another number; ask the plan administrator below.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 22-2518039
Participants (2012): 2,757
Net assets (2012): $47.3 million
Recordkeeper: Merrill2009–2012
Plan administrator: Journal Register East, Inc.
448 Lincoln Highway, 2ND Floor
Fairless Hills, PA 19030
(215) 504-4200As filed for 2012
In effect since: January 1, 2001

Year by year, 2009 to 2012

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2012	2,757	$47.3 million	Merrill
2011	3,035	$46.1 million	Merrill
2010	3,194	$52.2 million	Merrill
2009	2,907	$48.2 million	Merrill

Journal Register East, Inc. Affiliates 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan

401(k)Stopped filing

No annual report since the 2012 plan year, and no final report on record. The plan may have been merged, renamed or re-filed under another number; ask the plan administrator below.

Plan number: 003Employer EIN 22-2518039
Participants (2012): 765
Net assets (2012): $9.9 million
Recordkeeper: Merrill2010–2012
Plan administrator: Journal Register East, Inc.
448 Lincoln Highway, 2ND Floor
Fairless Hills, PA 19030
(215) 504-4200As filed for 2012
In effect since: September 1, 1987

Earlier plan names: Journal Register Company Retirement Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2012

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2012	765	$9.9 million	Merrill
2011	779	$9.4 million	Merrill
2010	484	$9.8 million	Merrill
2009	4,320	$83.7 million	not listed

Journal Register Company Mid-Hudson 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan

401(k)Stopped filing

No annual report since the 2012 plan year, and no final report on record. The plan may have been merged, renamed or re-filed under another number; ask the plan administrator below.

Plan number: 101Employer EIN 22-2518039
Participants (2012): 281
Net assets (2012): $2.9 million
Recordkeeper: Merrill2009–2012
Plan administrator: Journal Register East, Inc.
448 Lincoln Highway, 2ND Floor
Fairless Hills, PA 19030
(215) 504-4200As filed for 2012
In effect since: January 1, 1998

Year by year, 2009 to 2012

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2012	281	$2.9 million	Merrill
2011	408	$2.7 million	Merrill
2010	423	$3.6 million	Merrill
2009	466	$3.1 million	Merrill

If you had money in one of these plans

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.
For a pension the PBGC took over, call the PBGC at 1-800-400-7242 or search its unclaimed pensions. Have the plan name and your Social Security number ready.
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 4 plans

Journal Register Company Retirement Plan

Journal Register Company, Inc. 401(k) Savings & Retirement Plan

Journal Register East, Inc. Affiliates 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan

Journal Register Company Mid-Hudson 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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