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Note 13 - Retirement, Savings and Deferred Compensation Plans | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2024
Notes to Financial Statements |
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13. | RETIREMENT, SAVINGS AND DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS
The Company maintains the Bel Fuse Inc. Employees’ Savings Plan, a defined contribution plan that is intended to meet the applicable requirements for tax-qualification under sections 401(a) and (k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.The expense for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 amounted to $0.6 milli on and $0.4 million, respectively. The Company’s matching contribution is made in the form of Bel Fuse Inc. Class A common stock. As of March 31, 2024, the plan owned 284,384and 59,709 shares of Bel Fuse Inc. Class A and Class B common stock, respectively. The Company also maintains a Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan (the "DCP"). With certain exceptions, the Company's contributions to the DCP are discretionary and become fully vested by the participants upon reaching age 65. The expense amounted to less than $0.1 million during each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2024 and 2023. As the plan is fully funded, the assets and liabilities related to the DCP were in equal amounts of $1.1 million at March 31, 2024 and $1.0 million at December 31, 2023. These amounts are included in other assets and other liabilities, respectively, on the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets as of each date. The Company's subsidiaries in Asia have a retirement fund covering substantially all of their Hong Kong based full-time employees. The expense for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 amounted to $0.1 million and $0.6 million, respectively. The Company maintains a SERP, which is designed to provide a limited group of key management and other key employees of the Company with supplemental retirement and death benefits. As discussed in Note 6 above, the Company has investments in a rabbi trust which are intended to fund the obligations of the SERP. The components of SERP expense are as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended |
|  | March 31, |
|  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |
Service cost |  | $ | 99 |  |  | $ | 92 |
Interest cost |  |  | 226 |  |  |  | 221 |
Net amortization |  |  | 20 |  |  |  | 18 |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | 345 |  |  | $ | 331 |
The service cost component of net benefit cost is presented within cost of sales, research and development costs or selling, general and administrative expense on the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations, in accordance with where compensation cost for the related associate is reported. All other components of net benefit cost, including interest cost and net amortization noted above, are presented within other income/expense, net in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations. The following amounts are recognized net of tax in accumulated other comprehensive loss:
|  | March 31, |  |  | December 31, |
|  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |
Prior service cost |  | $ | 192 |  |  | $ | 212 |
Net loss |  |  | (1,336 | ) |  |  | (1,336 | )
|  | $ | (1,144 | ) |  | $ | (1,124 | )

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