SEC Form 11-K filed by First Community Corporation

Note 1.    Description of the Plan

The following description of First Community Bank (the “Bank”) 401(k) Plan (the “Plan”) provides only general information. The Bank is a subsidiary of First Community Corporation (the “Company”). The Plan is currently sponsored and maintained by the Bank. Participants should refer to the Plan agreement for a more complete description of the Plan’s provisions.

General:

The Plan is a defined contribution plan covering all employees of the Bank who have completed at least three months of service and are age eighteen or older. The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”).

Contributions:

Each year, participants may elect to defer a portion of their eligible compensation, as defined by the Plan. Participants who have attained the age of fifty before the end of the plan year are eligible to make catch-up contributions. Participants may also contribute amounts representing distributions from other qualified benefit or defined contribution plans. Participants direct the investment of their contributions into various investment options offered by the Plan. The Bank makes a matching contribution equal to 100% of employee contributions which do not exceed 3% of compensation, plus 50% of employee contributions which exceed 3% but do not exceed 5% of compensation. Additional profit-sharing amounts may be contributed at the option of the Bank’s board of directors to each eligible participant equal to a uniform percentage of each participant’s compensation. Eligible participants are defined as those having one year of service and employed as of year-end. The exact percentage, if any, will be determined by the Bank. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Bank made $429,392 in additional profit-sharing contributions. Contributions are subject to certain Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) limitations.

Participant accounts:

Each participant’s account is credited with the participant’s contributions, Bank contributions and Plan earnings (loss). Participant accounts are charged with an allocation of administrative expenses that are paid by the Plan. Allocations are based on participant earnings, account balances, or specific participant transactions, as defined. The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participant’s vested account.

Vesting:

Participants are immediately vested in their contributions and in the employer safe harbor matching contributions, plus actual earnings thereon. Vesting in the Bank’s discretionary contribution portion of their accounts is based on years of continuous service. A participant is 100% vested after six years of credited service.

Notes receivable from participants:

Participants may borrow from their accounts a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum equal to the lesser of $50,000 or 50% of their vested account balance. The $50,000 maximum amount will be reduced by the participant’s highest outstanding note balance in the previous 12 months, even if amounts have been repaid. The notes are secured by the balance in the participant’s account. The interest rate is the prime interest rate as set by the Wall Street Journal plus 1%, or such other rate as determined by the Plan Administrator on the basis of relevant factors including but not limited to the rates charged by local banks for notes of similar duration and security level. The rate of interest will be constant throughout the term of the note. All notes are required to be repaid within five years of the original date of the note. If a participant notifies the Plan Administrator in writing that the entire proceeds of the note was used to acquire a dwelling unit that will, within a reasonable time, be used as the principal residence of the participant, the note will be required to be repaid within 15 years of the original date of the note. Notes are to be repaid on the basis of substantially level amortization over the term of the note with payments made through salary reduction each pay period, if available. All or any part of the outstanding balance of a note can be repaid at any time without penalty.

Payment of benefits:

Upon termination of service, a participant may elect to receive a lump-sum amount equal to the value of the participant’s vested interest in his or her account, less any notes receivable outstanding. Hardship distributions are permitted upon demonstration of financial hardship. All fully vested balances are available for distribution after the participant reaches the age of 59½.

Forfeited accounts:

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, forfeited accounts totaled $2 and $3,309, respectively. Forfeitures may be used to reduce the Bank’s future contributions to the Plan as well as payment of administrative expenses. In 2025, administrative expenses were reduced by $14,435 from forfeited accounts.

Note 2.    Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Activities

Note 3.    Plan Termination

Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Bank has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. In the event of Plan termination, participants would become 100% vested in their employer contributions.

Note 4.    Fair Value Measurements

The framework for measuring fair value provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described as follows:

If the asset or liability has a specified (contractual) term, the Level 2 input must be observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability.

The asset’s or liability’s fair value measurement level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. Valuation techniques used need to maximize the use of relevant observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.

The following is a description of the valuation methodologies used for assets measured at fair value. There have been no changes in the methodologies used as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Mutual funds: Valued at the daily closing price as reported by the fund. Mutual funds held by the Plan are open-end mutual funds that are registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These funds are required to publish their daily Net Asset Value (“NAV”) and to transact at that price. The mutual funds held by the Plan are deemed to be actively traded.

Collective trust fund: Valued at NAV. The NAV, as provided by the trustee, is used as a practical expedient to estimate fair value. The NAV is based on the fair value of the underlying investments held by the fund less its liabilities. This practical expedient is not used when it is determined to be probable that the fund will sell the investment for an amount different than the reported NAV. Participant transactions (purchases and sales) may occur daily. Were the Plan to initiate a full redemption of the collective trust, the investment adviser reserves the right to temporarily delay withdrawal from the trust in order to ensure that securities liquidations will be carried out in an orderly business manner.

First Community Corporation Unitized Stock Fund: Valued at the closing price of First Community Corporation’s common stock reported on the active market on which the individual securities are traded plus the carrying value of the cash component of the fund, which approximates fair value. 

Note 5.    Tax Status

Effective December 15, 2020, the Plan adopted a non-standardized pre-approved plan sponsored by Ascensus, LLC, the plan provider. The plan provider has received an opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service as to the pre-approved plan’s qualified status. The pre-approved plan’s letter has been relied upon by this Plan. The Bank and the Plan Administrator believe that the Plan is designed and is currently being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.

Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require plan management to evaluate tax positions taken by the plan and recognize a tax liability if the Plan has taken an uncertain position that more likely than not would not be sustained upon examination by the Internal Revenue Service. The Plan is subject to routine audits by taxing jurisdictions; however, there are currently no audits for any tax periods in progress.

Note 6.    Related-Party and Party in Interest Transactions

Certain Plan assets are invested in a fund that includes the Company’s common stock as described in Note 2. These investments are considered party in interest transactions. Fees incurred by the Plan for investment management services are included in net appreciation in fair value of investments, as they are paid through revenue sharing, rather than a direct payment. As described in Note 2, the Plan made direct payments to the third-party administrator of $94,213 which were not covered by revenue sharing. The Bank pays directly any other fees related to the Plan’s operations. 

Note 7.    Risks and Uncertainties

The Plan invests in various investment securities. Investment securities are exposed to various risks such as interest rate, market, and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the 2025 Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits.

Note 8.    Subsequent Events

The Plan has evaluated, for consideration of recognition or disclosure, subsequent events that have occurred through the date of issuance, June 26, 2026, and has determined that no significant events occurred after December 31, 2025, but prior to the issuance of these financial statements, that would have a material impact on its financial statements. 

First Community Bank 401(k) Plan

EIN 57-1030051, Plan No. 001