Can you explain how a special-needs trust works?We have an adult child on disability and have been told we can set up a special-needs trust for her
When it was passed into law at the very end of 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act moved the age for required minimum distributions (RMDs) from 70.5 to 72.
The issue involves the 10-year rule that most non-spouse designated beneficiaries (like adult children or grandchildren, and certain qualifying trusts) who inherit individual retirement accounts will be subject to under the SECURE Act.It was expected that the 10-year rule would work the same way as the 5-year rule: There wouldn’t be annual required minimum distributions, but the entire inherited IRA account balance would have to be withdrawn by the end of the 10-year term.
The real estate market is hot.It is a seller’s market in much of the country and buyers face challenges
Searching for "retirement planning rules" produces 221 million results on Google.Yes, there's a lot of advice out there
Taxes don’t go away when you retire.In fact, for many of you reading this post, taxes may be even more onerous in the future once you are retired
This is my third update on the confusion about the 10-year rule on required minimum distributions under the SECURE Act, and it won’t be the last. Last Thursday, the IRS acknowledged that IRS Publication 590-B, which contains the tax rules for withdrawing funds from IRAs, is being revised, likely to fix the error I wrote about twice before here, in “IRS: SECURE Act’s 10-year RMD rule is not what you thought” on April 12 and “Weighing in on disputed language in IRS 10-year RMD rule” on April 28.
Congress has come up with what some are calling SECURE 2.0, or Son of SECURE — a bill entitled Securing a Stronger Retirement Act that includes many positive changes to encourage retirement savings. However, one seemingly pointless proposal in the legislation would raise the required minimum distribution age from 72 to 75 over 10 years.Most advisers might argue that consumers will probably love this
Far and away, the most frequent questions that pop into the HerMoney Mailbag are on the topic of retirement: Planning for retirement.Managing our money in retirement
The extended tax-filing deadline gives many Americans extra time to contribute to certain investment accounts for 2020.
The IRS in March moved the due date for individual returns to May 17 from April 15 due to the coronavirus pandemic.It also confirmed in March that moving the filing deadline also pushed back the last day to contribute to individual retirement accounts and Roth IRAs for the 2020 tax year.
