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How The SECURE Act Changes Your Retirement!


Transcript:

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hey guys Mike Frontera here back with

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another retirement Theory video well

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it's official the much-anticipated

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secure Act has been signed into law and

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there are some big changes in store for

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you there were a plethora of changes

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made with everything from IRAs 401 k

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plans 529 accounts and more and not

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every change was a big one so I'll save

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you some time and go over the ones that

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are likely to be the most impactful and

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for shorthand I'll be calling 401 K 403

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B 457 and IRA accounts IRAs just know

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that when I do I'm referring to all of

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these different retirement plan types

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okay so let's start with IRA required

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minimum distributions or RMDs

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you know that money that you have to

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start taking out at 70 and a half who

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came up with that odd age anyway well

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now they've moved it to 72 and if

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nothing else this should make it easier

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to figure out what year you need to

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start taking money out of your account

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but it's sure to bring up the question

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well what if I turn 70 and a half and

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2019 do I now get to skip a year and

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start withdrawals again in 2021

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no such luck the rule only applies if

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you turn 70 and a half in 2020 or later

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and nothing has changed yet regarding

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the RMD calculation itself though there

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are some rumblings that this calculation

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may soon be revised to reflect longer

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life spans and assuming it is the RMD

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amounts will decrease slightly each year

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a bigger change with RMDs however are

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for those that occur after death for

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those of you who may stand to inherit or

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may pass on an IRA our MDS will no

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longer be able to be stretched across a

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beneficiary's lifetime

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instead non spouse beneficiaries who are

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more than ten years younger than the

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deceased IRA owner will now generally be

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required to drain the entire IRA account

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within 10 years what's interesting about

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this is that the annual

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RMD will be gone too so in theory a

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beneficiary could take nothing out for

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nine years and take the entire IRA

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balance out in a lump sum in the tenth

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year for beneficiaries who may be

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working but plan to retire in the next

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few years this could provide at least

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some withdrawal planning to wait until

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their income is lower before drawing

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down their inherited IRA it may also

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increase the popularity of Roth IRA

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conversions for those looking to pass on

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an IRA an IRA owner may wish to slowly

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convert their IRA to tax-free Roth year

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by year rather than force their children

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to take presumably larger withdrawals

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over a ten year or less period couple

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final side notes on this under previous

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law seventy and a half mark both the age

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at which our MDS would start as well as

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which I when IRA contributions must stop

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this restriction has been lifted so as

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long as you have the earned income there

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is now no age limit for making IRA

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contributions also the increased our mdh

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to 72 does not affect the age for which

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qualified charitable distributions or

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cue CDs are able to be made those are

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still available for folks seventy and a

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half years or older but tricky tidbit

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though you're eligible QED CDs will be

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reduced by the cumulative total of post

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age seventy and a half IRA contributions

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so if you contributed say five thousand

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dollars a year to an IRA for three years

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after you're 70 in year seventy and a

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half your maximum QCD would be reduced

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from a hundred thousand down to

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eighty-five thousand by the way would

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you like to know more about those and

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other smart ways to donate to charity

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check out my video from June of 2019 now

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a couple of bones were thrown into the

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mix here for tax payers - seems like

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it's more for younger folks

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so the

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first is that your IRA withdrawals of up

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to $5,000 can be taken at any age

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without penalty for the qualified birth

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or adoption of a child and there is no

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limit on the number of children that

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this exemption is available to so if you

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have 10 kids it's $50,000 you can pull

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without tax penalty don't know how much

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that would help in that case but it's

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there not only that but if you take that

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withdrawal you actually have the ability

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to pay your IRA back your maximum

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eligible contribution will be increased

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by the amount of your withdrawal in the

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year you choose to pay those funds back

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to your IRA the other bonus is that you

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can now pay down up to ten thousand

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dollars in student loan debt

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using your 529 account now that $10,000

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is a lifetime limit so choose carefully

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for New York State residents who have

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student loans this brings up a potential

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way to cut your state income tax bill

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presumably you could contribute up to

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ten thousand dollars to a 529 plan and

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immediately draw the funds out to put

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toward your student loans by doing so

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you can snag a state income tax

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deduction just to pay a bill you're

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already obligated to pay and remember

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that's a $5,000 per individual limit for

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New York State's tax deduction in a New

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York State plan ten thousand for a

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couple again there are a lot of changes

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within the secure act and I've only

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touched on a handful of them if you have

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questions on these changes or you want

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to know more about the other changes let

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me know give me a call at five one eight

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again thank you for joining me see you

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next time

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you
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