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Speaker 4: I'm doing great, Son, how are you doing?
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Speaker 1: We've got we've got some fun stuff r mds would
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Speaker 1: uh really important conversation and it's also a really uh
Speaker 1: really cool thing for folks to understand how they work.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of a lot of misunderstanding
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Speaker 1: So you know, when we're talking about future retirement income,
Speaker 1: I know r m ds they are a big deal.
Speaker 2: What if folks need to know about those?
Speaker 4: Eric, Yeah, this is what we spend a lot of
Speaker 4: our time talking to clients about. And honestly, it's a
Speaker 4: I think a lot of the reason clients approach us
Speaker 4: to begin with, because not only are these pretty confusing,
Speaker 4: but they feel like they're constantly changing. But think of
Speaker 4: think of required minimum distributions or r m ds as well,
Speaker 4: we'll call them today. Think of them like the irs
Speaker 4: saying all right, we've we've allowed you to to uh
Speaker 4: put dollars into your retirement accounts pre tax uh and
Speaker 4: and defer tax on those dollars for all of these years.
Speaker 4: Now it's time that we want you to start taking
Speaker 4: it out so we can generate some some tax revenue
Speaker 4: on it. So they're gonna they're gonna make sure that
Speaker 4: your tax areferred. IRA money doesn't just stay there forever.
Speaker 4: And this is something I think that for folks has
Speaker 4: gotten a little more confusing because you know, they've heard
Speaker 4: certain ages they hurt seventy and a half, they've heard
Speaker 4: seventy two, seventy three, seventy five. You know, when does
Speaker 4: it start? So rm ds have changed in the last
Speaker 4: probably five years now, I think. And for folks born
Speaker 4: between January first, nineteen fifty one, in December thirty first,
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty nine, their rm ds are going to start
Speaker 4: at seventy three. And then anybody born after nineteen sixty
Speaker 4: their rmds are going to begin at seventy five. And
Speaker 4: I mentioned earlier it used to be seventy and a half,
Speaker 4: then it was seventy two. The the Secure Act and
Speaker 4: Secure Act two point zero legislation have pushed back rmds
Speaker 4: a couple of times here, and I think now for
Speaker 4: folks it's it's easiest just to think of it as
Speaker 4: if you're born before December thirty first, nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 4: rm ds start at seventy three. Anybody after you're starting
Speaker 4: at seventy five. Now, if you miss your rm D
Speaker 4: there is a penalty. We'll get into the details of
Speaker 4: that later, but there is a penalty for not taking
Speaker 4: out your required amount when the time comes. And these
Speaker 4: distributions are taxable income. Okay, so unless you have after
Speaker 4: tax contributions in your retirement plans, which are less common
Speaker 4: these days. You are going to pay income tax on
Speaker 4: those distributions. Again, that's why the I R S is
Speaker 4: actually wanting you to take those dollars.
Speaker 2: Out, always looking for their money.
Speaker 4: Had they won't forget about it, Shohn, I don't worry.
Speaker 2: They won't forget about it. They certainly don't.
Speaker 1: Talking this morning with Eric Schwartz and Nate Brivey, our
Speaker 1: retirement planning professionals from Class Financial. If you've got a
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Speaker 2: So Nate, what kind of accounts are we talking about here?
Speaker 5: Yep, So rmds are going to apply to any pre
Speaker 5: tax retirement accounts, Like Eric said, so think of traditional iras,
Speaker 5: step irays, simple iras, four oh one k's, four oh
Speaker 5: three b's, and four fifty seven b's. So most of
Speaker 5: you may have some of those accounts infully those names
Speaker 5: ring a bell for you. There is one key exception
Speaker 5: that if you are in past age seventy three, you
Speaker 5: don't need to take r and ds from your company
Speaker 5: sponsored retirement plan if you're still employed with them. Now,
Speaker 5: I do believe you actually have to be working through
Speaker 5: the full year. So it's not like you can say, well,
Speaker 5: I work New Year's Day and then I don't have.
Speaker 3: To take it for the whole year.
Speaker 5: I'm you know, Eric, you can correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 5: but I'm pretty certain you.
Speaker 3: Have to work through the whole year to get that exception.
Speaker 3: So true.
Speaker 5: Notice one important point in that simple and set plans
Speaker 5: are do not fall under that exception. So if you
Speaker 5: have a simple plan, your simpler set plan that you're
Speaker 5: self employed, and you say, well, I'm seventy three and
Speaker 5: I'm still doing electrical work, it's like, well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: it's a simple IRA and unfortunately not qualify for that
Speaker 5: I'm working past age seventy three exemption there. So, of course,
Speaker 5: notably excluded from this list is ROTH accounts, so Roth
Speaker 5: iras are made with you know, after tax contributions tax regrowth,
Speaker 5: so there are no required.
Speaker 3: Minimum distributions on those while you're living.
Speaker 5: I think Eric has a section on about inherited rm ds,
Speaker 5: which are a whole nother ball of wax, but for
Speaker 5: the original contributor to ROTH iras there is no required
Speaker 5: minimum distributions, which is great.
Speaker 3: Really, there was a wonky, a wonky.
Speaker 5: Nuance in the tax code where actually Roth four oh
Speaker 5: one k's required.
Speaker 3: A minimum distribution, which is wonky.
Speaker 5: But actually starting last year in twenty four that they
Speaker 5: got rid of that requirement. So Roth four oh one
Speaker 5: k's do not require a minimum distribution at this point.
Speaker 1: It's all that's stuff. I find that stuff so interesting.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know that they made that change back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. I remember when we were doing
Speaker 1: shows previous to that change is always like what is
Speaker 1: that all about? And that's, you know, one of those
Speaker 1: one of those very fascinating things like how did that
Speaker 1: get forgotten? Of course, eventually kind of figure everything out
Speaker 1: and level it all out as well. As we talked
Speaker 1: this morning with Eric Schwartz today Briby retirement planning professionals
Speaker 1: from Class Financial talking this week about required minimum distributions.
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Speaker 1: three seven. So how do you figure out and how
Speaker 1: do they figure out what those RMD amounts are each year?
Speaker 1: And what if you slip up and maybe a miss one?
Speaker 5: Sure, this is a simple two party equation. So you
Speaker 5: start with your previous year ends balance divided.
Speaker 3: By your life expectancy factor.
Speaker 5: So if you're turning seventy three this year, you would
Speaker 5: take your twelve thirty one of twenty twenty four IRA
Speaker 5: balance and divide it by a factor that will get
Speaker 5: a number here, a factor that we'll getting tier in
Speaker 5: a second. But most individuals will use the uniform life
Speaker 5: table to find your life expectancy. This factor will decrease
Speaker 5: every year, and all else being equal results in a
Speaker 5: higher RMD going forward. Now it should be hopefully be obvious,
Speaker 5: but you will have a different RMD amount every year.
Speaker 5: So an example would be someone turning seventy three. Their
Speaker 5: life expectancy factor is twenty six point five years. So
Speaker 5: on one hundred thousand dollars account, you need to take
Speaker 5: out about three thousand, seven hundred and seventy four dollars.
Speaker 3: So for US math.
Speaker 5: Wizards, that's about three point seventy eight percent if you
Speaker 5: want to think about it that way. Rmds are calculated
Speaker 5: per IRA, so if you have three, you'll have three
Speaker 5: separate rmds. But now you can aggregate that total amount
Speaker 5: and distribute it from one single IRA IRA. But notably,
Speaker 5: this is only for iras. Once again another new liance,
Speaker 5: So four one k is or three b's four to
Speaker 5: fifty seven plans must be taken from each company's separate plan,
Speaker 5: so that's something to be aware of. Now another special note,
Speaker 5: because there's not enough already. If your spouse is the
Speaker 5: sole beneficiary of your IRA or retirement.
Speaker 3: Account and they are more than ten years younger.
Speaker 5: Than you, you actually get to use a different table
Speaker 5: called the joint life expectancy table to calculate your life expectancy,
Speaker 5: and once again, all else being equal, this will result
Speaker 5: in a slightly smaller RMD to account for a younger
Speaker 5: spouse potentially inheriting the money down the road. Now, you
Speaker 5: can delay your first RMD to what's called your required
Speaker 5: beginning date, which is April first of the year after
Speaker 5: you reach age seventy three or seventy five. But if
Speaker 5: you do that, you would actually be doubling up and
Speaker 5: having two years worth of minimums distributed.
Speaker 3: In the same tax here.
Speaker 5: Right, So if I take my defer my first year's
Speaker 5: RMB til next year in twenty six, I take twenty
Speaker 5: five's minimum in twenty six plus twenty twenty six minimums
Speaker 5: in that same calendar year as well, if you follow
Speaker 5: me there. So generally we don't recommend that, but just
Speaker 5: that's kind of a whoops, you shoe it.
Speaker 3: I forgot about the first time.
Speaker 5: They kind of give your grace period that for that
Speaker 5: first quarter of the following year there. But as we said,
Speaker 5: missing an R and D is kind of a big deal.
Speaker 5: Now they have dropped the penalty on this. It used
Speaker 5: to be a fifty percent penalty on any amount that
Speaker 5: you failed to distribute. That has been reduced to twenty
Speaker 5: five percent on the shortfall. If you do correct it
Speaker 5: within two years, you're eligible to drop that penalty to
Speaker 5: ten percent.
Speaker 3: Now you can still apply to actually waive.
Speaker 5: That penalty as well, basically begging for forgiveness with the
Speaker 5: IRS to potentially get that wave. So if you do
Speaker 5: miss one, the first thing you need to do is
Speaker 5: talk to your advisor or your bank wherever your money
Speaker 5: is held, get the get the missed amount taken out,
Speaker 5: and then talk to your account about what to do next.
Speaker 2: Sounds it's very important. It's just sounds that it's painful.
Speaker 1: You don't want to mess around with that souf as
Speaker 1: we talked this morning with Eric and Nate. Of course,
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Speaker 1: five six three seven. Talking this week about r mds,
Speaker 1: of course, they are an important important thing to know about.
Speaker 1: And uh, as we kind of left off, I had
Speaker 1: mentioned inherited iras and Eric, let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: Let's say you inherited one. Are there any special rules
Speaker 2: for these?
Speaker 4: There are a lot of special rules fun before I
Speaker 4: before I kind of jumped into going over the the
Speaker 4: basics of inherited diaries. These are very very complex calculations
Speaker 4: in some cases, and make sure you're working with an
Speaker 4: advisor or or whoever is holding the funds that you inherit,
Speaker 4: because inherited diaries they'll usually have rm ds. But beginning
Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty, when the first Secure Act legislation
Speaker 4: went through, they changed a lot of the rules surrounding
Speaker 4: how much you have to take out when you have
Speaker 4: to do it. They passed that in January, well, it
Speaker 4: took effect in January twenty twenty, and then by about
Speaker 4: January twenty twenty one we finally had enough clarity to
Speaker 4: actually go ahead and make some judgments based on it.
Speaker 4: But inherited iras in general will have r and DS
Speaker 4: if you inherited those dollars before twenty twenty, so before
Speaker 4: Secure Act, the first Secure Act legislation. The distributions are
Speaker 4: based on your life expectancy. If you inherited in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty or later and the original owner had already started
Speaker 4: taking required minimum distributions, you will need to keep taking
Speaker 4: them out. And if you're a non spouse beneficiary, you
Speaker 4: have an additional rule that says you have ten years
Speaker 4: to draw down the account. Okay, so you only have
Speaker 4: to take your required amount for the first nine years,
Speaker 4: but in the tenth year if you haven't, if you've
Speaker 4: only taken out the minimum amount, odds are there's a
Speaker 4: big chunk of money leftover that you then need to
Speaker 4: distribute in the final year, and at that point it's
Speaker 4: hitting you all in one tax year. So this would
Speaker 4: be where you'd want to work with an accountant and
Speaker 4: advisor to figure out how you spread out those distributions
Speaker 4: and what makes the most sense for your situation. Now,
Speaker 4: if you're a spousal beneficiary, you do have the option
Speaker 4: to roll the funds into your own IRA. That way,
Speaker 4: you can defer your r and DS until you are
Speaker 4: seventy three. So basically in that case you're once you
Speaker 4: roll it over, the IRS views it as if you,
Speaker 4: the surviving spouse, actually saved all those dollars.
Speaker 3: It sort of.
Speaker 4: Loses the the inherited classification. And lastly, here as a
Speaker 4: spousal beneficiary, you can also leave it as an inherited IRA,
Speaker 4: in which case you take required minimum distributions based on
Speaker 4: your life expectancy. You might say, why would you ever
Speaker 4: do that? It seems to reduce your flexibility if you
Speaker 4: have an age difference where you know where, for example,
Speaker 4: maybe the surviving spouse was younger, or in the case
Speaker 4: of passing away earlier in life, you actually have access
Speaker 4: without a penalty to inherited IRA dollars before fifty nine
Speaker 4: and a half. So if someone passes away young and
Speaker 4: their surviving spouse thinks maybe they would need access to
Speaker 4: funds before they reach fifty nine and a half, they
Speaker 4: might leave it in an inherited IRA just to keep
Speaker 4: access to it.
Speaker 1: Eric, you know, as we talk about this stuff too,
Speaker 1: I feel like we've talked in the past rmds and
Speaker 1: charitable giving charities. There is there is an aspect to
Speaker 1: these as well that folks need to be aware of,
Speaker 1: isn't there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, as tax law has changed in the standard
Speaker 4: deduction has increased in the last eight years. Here, the
Speaker 4: ability to actually deduct charitable distributions through itemization has gotten
Speaker 4: a lot harder because most people don't have enough itemized
Speaker 4: deduction to actually exceed that standard deduction. So while while
Speaker 4: you're still doing good by by giving away giving away
Speaker 4: dollars to charitable organizations. It's many cases not shown up
Speaker 4: on your tax return. So qualified charitable distributions or qcds
Speaker 4: have become much more popular and much more talked about.
Speaker 4: Qcds that you donate up to one hundred and eight
Speaker 4: thousand dollars per year and that's for twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: directly from your IRA to a qualified charity. Okay, So
Speaker 4: when this happens, you're basically it's going right to the
Speaker 4: charitable organization. And you do not then need to report
Speaker 4: those dollars as taxable income. Okay, So it counts towards
Speaker 4: your required minimum distribution and and it's it's not going
Speaker 4: to show up as income on your tax return. Now,
Speaker 4: you do have to be seventy and a half in
Speaker 4: order to utilize the qcds. And it's you can't just
Speaker 4: say like, well, I see or I turned seventy and
Speaker 4: a half. Let's say in August and it's June, I'm
Speaker 4: going to do a QCD. Now you can't do that.
Speaker 4: You have to wait till you are actually seventy and
Speaker 4: a half to give away funds directly from your IRA
Speaker 4: to a charity. They do need to come out by
Speaker 4: December thirty first, and they have to go to an
Speaker 4: eligible charity or five oh one C three organization donor
Speaker 4: advised funds and other supporting organizations. Those are actually not
Speaker 4: eligible to receive qcds, and you're not getting a charitable
Speaker 4: deduction in addition to the QCD benefit, because remember the
Speaker 4: QCD benefit is basically, hey, if I give ten thousand
Speaker 4: dollars to this charity, that's ten thousand dollars less of
Speaker 4: income that I'm actually reporting on my tax return. So
Speaker 4: you don't get to claim a charitable deduction in addition
Speaker 4: to that. But you're actually you're actually coming out in
Speaker 4: many cases pretty well because you're actually able to deduct
Speaker 4: the full amount you're giving without itemizing. Now, last thing
Speaker 4: here is keep good records. Because you're ten ninety nine R,
Speaker 4: which is your your tax reporting form that you get
Speaker 4: from your retirement account in January, it doesn't actually show
Speaker 4: the amount that went to a QCD, It just shows
Speaker 4: the total amount that came out. So you actually need
Speaker 4: to let your accountant know, hey, I gave you know,
Speaker 4: five thousand or ten thousand dollars of that away, so
Speaker 4: that the accountant can then exclude that from your income
Speaker 4: on your tax return.
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Speaker 1: So Nate, Eric, that kind of you know, we touched
Speaker 1: on qcds, would would somebody?
Speaker 2: Is Is there a reason.
Speaker 1: Why somebody would choose to use them even even if
Speaker 1: they're not required to take r mds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So this is another interesting nuance in the tax code.
Speaker 5: So once again, qcds can start at age seventy and
Speaker 5: a half, but your rm ds don't have to start
Speaker 5: until seventy three or seventy five. So obviously there's a
Speaker 5: little bit of a gap there where you have this
Speaker 5: opportunity to do qcds before you're required to even distribute
Speaker 5: funds from your IRA. So, honestly, this is kind of
Speaker 5: cute even by my standards, This even really makes sense.
Speaker 5: But a couple of reasons I thought of here really
Speaker 5: you know, once again, to maximize charitable impacts. So if
Speaker 5: you're going to take a distribution, you know, just give
Speaker 5: for example anyway that makes no sense.
Speaker 3: So you're gonna want to do it to you know,
Speaker 3: for pre.
Speaker 5: Tax dollars directly from your IRA, and I say, basically
Speaker 5: everyone wins but the irs when you do qcds. Okay.
Speaker 5: So still in most cases, the qcds are probably the
Speaker 5: most powerful way to do to donate to charity because
Speaker 5: they really okay, So that is the key term. AGI
Speaker 5: sets a lot of different credits and deductions. Potentially your
Speaker 5: medicare part B premiums, there's issues with the tax torpedo
Speaker 5: for social security. There's a thousand different things reasons why
Speaker 5: you potentially want to lower your AGI, which is you know,
Speaker 5: above the line deduction basically if you want to think
Speaker 5: of it that way.
Speaker 3: So that's the main thing.
Speaker 5: The other logical reason it's kind of once again super
Speaker 5: cute and nuance where if you think about rm ds
Speaker 5: in general, they're based on the size of your account,
Speaker 5: So those with larger account balances that are worried about
Speaker 5: higher taxes in the future or whatever whatever, whatever, getting
Speaker 5: money out of the produce future rm ds. Right, So
Speaker 5: if you're seventy and a half, you have two million
Speaker 5: dollars in your iran is going to be I don't
Speaker 5: know what that is, A one hundred and twenty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars minimum or something. You want to say, what can
Speaker 5: I do to prevent future minimum distributions. It's like give
Speaker 5: twenty thousand dollars to your church today, right, there's twenty
Speaker 5: thousand dollars less that's going to be.
Speaker 3: Subject to rm ds at some point in the future.
Speaker 5: So it's been cute, but slight, you know, slight benefit
Speaker 5: there for giving as soon as.
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Speaker 1: thing is as we as we talk this morning, Nate,
Speaker 1: when it comes to this stuff, it really seems to
Speaker 1: be like being proactive and strategic with taxes and of
Speaker 1: course what a great opportunity as well to not only
Speaker 1: be proactive and strategic, but also support your favorite charities.
Speaker 5: Yeah, qcds are really one of the best tools you
Speaker 5: have in your toolkit for those charitably minded and seventy
Speaker 5: and a half, it's the best way to maximize your
Speaker 5: charitable impact and minimize your tax burden. So always consult
Speaker 5: with your financial advisor tax professional to determine if the
Speaker 5: qcds makes sense.
Speaker 3: But honestly, in.
Speaker 5: Most cases they're going to that's probably what your account's
Speaker 5: going to recommend to once again lower your AGI and
Speaker 5: reduce your tax file income.
Speaker 2: What a great tool we got there.
Speaker 1: Speaking of great tools and great opportunities, if you head
Speaker 1: on over the website clausefinancial dot com, you can always
Speaker 1: submit a question to be answered in the Money and
Speaker 1: Motion listener question corner. We have a question this week
Speaker 1: from Brent Brent Wrights, and he says, I'm forty five
Speaker 1: years old, so still a while from retirement, but wondering
Speaker 1: if it makes more sense for me to add more
Speaker 1: into my four ROH one K currently or work on
Speaker 1: paying down my debt. I'm currently putting away ten percent
Speaker 1: of my salary into savings and Eric, I'll give this
Speaker 1: one on over to you, what do you advise for Brett?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Brent, first of all, it's a great question, and
Speaker 4: when we get quite a bit and glad you're thinking
Speaker 4: about it now, and of course thank you for sending
Speaker 4: this to us ahead of time. It gives us a
Speaker 4: little time to think about the response and formulate something
Speaker 4: that hopefully will be pretty helpful. Let's, I think the
Speaker 4: short answer to this is you should be doing some
Speaker 4: of both. But in terms of you know which parts
Speaker 4: to focus on, let's kind of consider a few factors here.
Speaker 4: So at this point in Brent's life, if he's in
Speaker 4: the prime wealth building phase, so we do want him
Speaker 4: to be thinking about saving for retirement. But we also
Speaker 4: know that, you know, debt is taking monthly cash flow
Speaker 4: both during the working years and in retirement, so we
Speaker 4: want to be we want to be paying that down
Speaker 4: as quickly as possible. So let's think about, first of all,
Speaker 4: the power of compounding. So retirement savings, especially in like
Speaker 4: a four oh one K plan where you have a
Speaker 4: tax benefit, they benefit greatly from compounding. So the earlier
Speaker 4: that you have the money there, the more time the
Speaker 4: money has to grow. And at a really simple level,
Speaker 4: it's you know, your money is growing, and then that
Speaker 4: money is growing, right, so you're you're actually benefiting from
Speaker 4: it the longer you have the dollars in there now.
Speaker 4: On the flip side of that, though, high interest debt
Speaker 4: works against you in the same way. Right if you
Speaker 4: have a high interest rate on some on a credit card,
Speaker 4: for example, you're actually falling further behind by the compounding
Speaker 4: the compounding interest on the debt. So think of about
Speaker 4: the type of debt that you have. So if you
Speaker 4: have credit card debt or other high interest rate loans
Speaker 4: are a great example, those should be priority. We should
Speaker 4: be getting those paid off as quickly as possible. Mortgage
Speaker 4: det or other low interest debt options, those we would
Speaker 4: say are less urgent, and you wouldn't have to prioritize
Speaker 4: those oversaving for retirement. So create a list of all
Speaker 4: your debts and their interest rates and balances, and prioritize
Speaker 4: wiping out those high interest debts and like I said,
Speaker 4: it be a little bit less urgent on those lower
Speaker 4: interest rate loans. We also need to be thinking about
Speaker 4: the four to one k match. So if Brent's putting
Speaker 4: away ten percent of his salary in general, I would
Speaker 4: assume he is he is getting the full employer match
Speaker 4: in his four oh one. K. No, that's not to
Speaker 4: say that there can be some strange calculation that the
Speaker 4: employer uses to figure out the match. But it sounds
Speaker 4: like you're hitting enough to get the full employer man.
Speaker 4: Because if you need to put in, you know, three percent,
Speaker 4: and your employer will put in three percent. Well, if
Speaker 4: you're not putting in anything, you're you're leaving three percent
Speaker 4: on the table from the employer. So make sure you're
Speaker 4: doing enough to get that employer match. But Brent, it
Speaker 4: sounds like you're doing that right now.
Speaker 1: Really good, good approach there so far as we're talking
Speaker 1: with Eric and Nate. Of course, Eric Swartz and Nate
Speaker 1: Bribey are retirement plan professionals from Class Financial Online. Classfinancial
Speaker 1: dot com. That's coss k l a A s Financial
Speaker 1: dot com. Sorry about that, Eric, speaking of approached, that's
Speaker 1: a proper approach is important to this stuff, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Sure is no problem. Just a couple more things I
Speaker 4: wanted to go over here. You know, we can't just
Speaker 4: just give a quick straight answer, Sean. We gotta we
Speaker 4: gotta tell everybody about everything. The last couple of things
Speaker 4: here is before you you get really aggressive with paying
Speaker 4: down your debt, just to ensure that you have an
Speaker 4: emergency fund, so as we've talked about on the show,
Speaker 4: before three to six months of living expenses, because that's
Speaker 4: going to prevent you from going further into debt in
Speaker 4: the future if unexpected expenses arise. So do prioritize that
Speaker 4: emergency fund before you're really tackling, really tackling those those
Speaker 4: short term debts. And finally, seek out professional advice. An
Speaker 4: advisor can help you figure out kind of the right
Speaker 4: balance of saving for retirement and paying down debt based
Speaker 4: on your specific situation and goals. So in short, here
Speaker 4: prioritize getting the full four one K match, tackle high
Speaker 4: interest debt aggressively, and maintain an emergency fund. Once you've
Speaker 4: done those three things, then you can ramp up your
Speaker 4: retirement savings and know that you're striking a good balance
Speaker 4: between the two.
Speaker 1: Really good show, as always from Eric Schwartz and Nate Bridy,
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