Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(e) On October 21, 2009, the Compensation Committee and the Board of Directors of United Community Financial Corp. approved an amendment to the Executive Incentive Plan previously adopted on July 15, 2009. The Plan provides incentive compensation awards to Messrs. McKay, Bevack and Reske, in addition to other executive officers. As originally adopted, the Plan was to make awards based upon UCFC's actual performance for the calendar year compared to the actual performance of an established peer group for the same calendar year, looking at six performance measures. However, the Compensation Committee determined that, since most peer year-end, financial performance will not be available until Form 10-Ks are filed in March, it would be better to base the comparison on UCFC's actual performance for the 12 months ended September 30 compared to the actual performance of the peer group during the same 12 month period. Therefore, the Compensation Committee and the Board approved this change. It continues to be true that in order for any awards to be made under the Plan for 12 months of performance, UCFC must report positive net income for the calendar year ended December 31. It is only the 12 month comparison that will use data from October 1 to September 30.

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