Required Minimum Distributions
Keep up with the latest changes affecting required minimum distributions and how they affect your clients, including those tied to 401(k)s plans, IRAs and annuities, as well as the best RMD strategies.
Ed Slott: Secure Act 2.0 Reduces 'Draconian' RMD Penalty, Broadens Roths
By Melanie WaddellThe sweeping retirement bill passed in the House Tuesday and is expected to be taken up in the Senate soon.
March 25, 2022
Bill Raising RMD Age to Get House Vote TuesdayThe Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022, or Secure Act 2.0, aims to raise the required distrubution age and institute other changes.
March 23, 2022
5 Ways to Lower RMDs, Help Clients Reduce Medicare SurchargesStrategies to trim required minimum distributions can lessen the impact of income-related monthly adjustment amounts, or IRMAAs.
March 22, 2022
Ed Slott: More 'Insanity' Lurks in IRS Secure Act RMD RegsThe rules "go off the rails," he says, by forcing some beneficiaries to "monitor two sets of RMD factors well into their 90s!"
March 21, 2022
Don't 'Torpedo' Medicare, Social Security in Retirement Plans: William MeyerRetiree Inc.'s CEO says good intentions can go wrong, such as when a Roth conversion raised a client's Medicare premium, an outcome that "will likely" get the advisor "fire[d]."
March 16, 2022
3 Stretch IRA Alternatives After IRS' Secure Act SurpriseTax-efficient estate planning strategies exist, but each has its own rules.
March 14, 2022
Ed Slott: New IRS Secure Act Regs Are an RMD 'Nightmare'"I really don't know how advisors will be able to explain this all to clients," Slott told ThinkAdvisor.
March 11, 2022
IRS' Secure Act Guidance on RMDs Has a Surprise TwistThe IRS has released long-awaited proposed regulations on inherited IRAs.