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How to Calculate Life Expectancy Payments on Inherited IRA Assets

Financial organizations are not required to send notices to clients or report to the IRS when an annual payment must be taken from an inherited IRA. The beneficiary is responsible for knowing and taking any required life expectancy payments.

Although not required, many financial organizations assist their clients with this calculation.

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Successor Beneficiaries: What Are Their Distribution Options?

When an IRA owner dies, the assets are distributed to beneficiaries, whether named by the IRA owner or determined by IRA document defaults. This can sometimes be a complicated process for financial organizations. And further complications may arise when the original beneficiary dies, leaving the inherited IRA to a successor beneficiary.

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When an HSA Goes Negative: Why it Matters and How to Prevent it

Health savings accounts (HSAs) are designed to help people pay for qualified medical expenses, so it’s no surprise that there’s a lot of money going in and out of these accounts. To make it easier for account owners to pay for things like prescriptions or doctor visits, many financial organizations offer HSA debit cards or checks. While these tools add convenience, they can also create problems, especially when they lead to negative balances.

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Early Distributions and Penalty Tax Exceptions

IRAs and qualified retirement plans (QRPs) are intended to be used for retirement. Therefore, the tax laws and regulations encourage people to leave their money in an IRA or QRP until they retire. If distributions are taken from an IRA (including an IRA holding SEP contributions) or QRP before the account owner reaches age 59½, a 10 percent early distribution penalty tax is assessed on the taxable amount of the distribution, unless a penalty tax exception applies.

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Top IRA Questions from Ascend

Every year industry professionals gather with Ascensus trainers at the Ascend conference. Not only do they get to continue their education and refine their expertise in retirement, health, and education savings plans, but they get to submit questions to our highly-qualified trainers. Here are the top questions asked and answered over the week.

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New RMD Rule Could Affect Spouse Beneficiaries, Hypothetically

The new RMD regulations are not without at least one limitation for spouse beneficiaries, in the form of the “hypothetical RMD.” This could affect a spouse beneficiary who inherits an IRA or qualified retirement plan account before the deceased’s RMDs are required to begin—generally age 73—and who elects the new 10-year beneficiary payout rule in order to delay the onset of required distributions.

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