A Personal Finance Blog for Regular Folks
Fall is here and that means beautiful foliage, football, apple cider and open enrollment forms.
If you have a full time career where health care is provided, each year you are likely given a stack of forms that include the option to change your health care options.
Much like your 401(k), many of these forms come with a memo from your human resources department telling you what to check, where to sign, and some charts that you may not understand.
Last month Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced the roll out of QE3—the third installment of a plan to intervene more directly into the financial sector of the U.S. economy.
We hear and read a lot about it in the media and on the web, but how much does it affect us?
As individuals, very little; but collectively, the effect is more substantial.
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Roth IRA’s have become enormously popular in recent years especially with the conversion of traditional IRA’s to Roth’s.
Now that it seems as if nearly everyone has a Roth, let’s take a look at the rule’s withdrawals. Sooner or later, we’ll all be doing it.
Before we get started, I recommend that you get advice from your CPA or tax advisor before taking any withdrawals from your Roth IRA. The rules on this are fairly complex and your individual circumstances will have a material affect on the outcome.
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