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Severance Pay for IRA

Hello, The question comes up often where a person leaves a company and is receive severance pay after they separate...
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SECURE 2.0 Eliminates Penalty on NIA

SECURE 2.0 is a mammoth piece of legislation that contains over 90 provisions that affect retirement accounts. While many of these provisions are not game changers, they still can be very helpful to specific groups of retirement savers. One of these is the provision that eliminates the 10% early distribution penalty that applies to net income attributable (NIA) when an excess IRA contribution is corrected by withdrawal.
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March 2023

SECURE 2.0 Makes Changes to RMD and Excess Contribution Penalties

  • RMD Penalty Changes
  • Excess Contribution Penalty Changes
  • The Takeaway

Executive Summary

Insert: 2023 HSA Chart

Unsolved Mysteries of SECURE 2.0

  • Drafting Errors
  • 529-to-Roth IRA Rollovers
  • New Exceptions to the 10% Penalty
  • Other Unresolved Issues ρ Conclusion

GUEST IRA EXPERT: Ryan McKeown,

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EDBs Have a Choice: Stretch vs. 10-Year

By now, most are aware the SECURE Act created a new class of beneficiaries called “eligible designated beneficiaries” (EDBs). This group includes surviving spouses, minor children of the account owner (until age 21), disabled individuals, chronically ill individuals, and people who are not more than 10 years younger than the IRA owner. (Those older than the IRA owner also qualify.)
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