10. DEFINED BENEFIT RETIREMENT PLAN

The Company sponsored a defined benefit retirement plan, The Juniata Valley Bank Retirement Plan (“JVB Plan”), which covered substantially all of its employees employed prior to December 31, 2007. As of January 1, 2008, the JVB Plan was amended to close the plan to new entrants. All active participants as of December 31, 2007 became 100% vested in their accrued benefit and, as long as they remained eligible, continued to accrue benefits until December 31, 2012. The benefits were based on years of service and the employee’s compensation. Effective December 31, 2012, the JVB Plan was amended to cease future service accruals after that date (i.e., it was frozen).

As a result of the FNBPA acquisition, as of November 30, 2015, the Company assumed sponsorship of a second defined benefit retirement plan, the Retirement Plan for the First National Bank of Port Allegany (“FNB Plan”), which covered substantially all former FNBPA employees that were employed prior to September 30, 2008. The FNBPA Plan was amended as of December 31, 2015 to cease future service accruals to previously unfrozen participants and was considered to be “frozen”. Effective December 31, 2016, the FNB Plan was merged into the JVB Plan, which was amended to provide the same benefits to the class of participants previously included in the FNB Plan.

Juniata’s Board of Directors resolved to terminate the JVB Plan, effective November 30, 2018. All participants were properly notified. During the second quarter of 2019, JVB Plan participants elected preferences for receiving their vested benefit in the form of either lump sum payments or annuities. All obligations were satisfied in the third quarter of 2019 and The JVB Plan was liquidated. Excess funds of $431,000 were transferred to fund the Company’s 401(k) Safe Harbor Plan.

Pension expense included the following components for the three months ended March 31, 2019:


	Three Months Ended
(Dollars in thousands)	March 31,
	2019
Components of net periodic pension cost:
Interest cost	$	125
Expected return on plan assets		(124)
Recognized net actuarial loss		28
Net periodic pension cost		29
Total recognized in other comprehensive income		(28)
Total recognized in net periodic pension cost and other comprehensive income	$	1