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Speaker 1: As metcha were gonna be talking about different retirement plans
Speaker 1: and contribution limits, and I know we as we discussed
Speaker 1: these things, CEJ.
Speaker 2: There's a lot to know, isn't there.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, And given that we're a retirement planning firm.
Speaker 3: It's obviously no surprise that we specialize in helping individuals, families,
Speaker 3: and employers optimize their retirement savings decisions. And this is
Speaker 3: done through various different types of retirement accounts or retirement structures.
Speaker 3: So let's start with a high level overview and then
Speaker 3: we can dig into some of the nitty gritty as
Speaker 3: we move along through the show. So to begin here,
Speaker 3: in the United States, there are typically two core types
Speaker 3: of retirement plans. The first type of retirement plan is
Speaker 3: called a defined benefit plan, which is also often referred
Speaker 3: to as a traditional pension plan, or or to merge
Speaker 3: in both together, a traditional defined benefit pension plan. And
Speaker 3: then the second type of retirement plan is often called
Speaker 3: a defined contribution plan, which is also often referred to
Speaker 3: by many different names such as four oh one K
Speaker 3: four H three B, four to fifty, simple, IRA, IRA, ROTH, IRA,
Speaker 3: and the list goes on. So I do want to
Speaker 3: repeat that two core types of retirement plans you typically
Speaker 3: see here in the United States defined a defined benefit
Speaker 3: plan also known as a traditional defined benefit pension plan,
Speaker 3: and a defined contribution plan also known as four to
Speaker 3: one K, four H three B fourty seven simple IRA.
Speaker 4: So on and so forth.
Speaker 3: But what I want you to focus on is we
Speaker 3: move forward throughout the show, is what is defined. In
Speaker 3: the first one, what is defined is the benefit aka
Speaker 3: what you will receive in the future. In the second one,
Speaker 3: what is defined is the contribution. Also said another way,
Speaker 3: you don't know what your benefit will be. You just
Speaker 3: know how much is going into the account. Okay, So
Speaker 3: everybody who's listening, keep that in your brain as we
Speaker 3: move forward here. Now, the primary difference between these two
Speaker 3: types of retirement plans is really who bears the risk.
Speaker 3: And again what I mentioned is what is defined versus undefined.
Speaker 3: So let's go through some questions and summarize them on
Speaker 3: a per retirement plan type, beginning with the traditional defined
Speaker 3: benefit pension plans.
Speaker 4: So here's a question.
Speaker 3: What's being promised in a traditional pension plan. Well, the
Speaker 3: employer promises a specific retirement benefit to the employee based
Speaker 3: on a formula that usually considers factors like salary history
Speaker 3: and years of service. For those of you who are
Speaker 3: listening who are a State of Wisconsin employees, your ears
Speaker 3: should be perking up. Going this sounds an awful right,
Speaker 3: A lot like my WRS employee trust funds pension. That's right,
Speaker 3: your employee trust funds pension is, for the most part,
Speaker 3: a defined benefit pension plan. So continuing through our questions,
Speaker 3: in a pension plan, who bears the risk? And the
Speaker 3: answer is the employer bears the investment risk. They are
Speaker 3: responsible for ensuring there's an enough money to pay the
Speaker 3: collective promises in current and future benefits to recipients regardless
Speaker 3: of how the underlying investments perform. Next question is what
Speaker 3: is defined? Well, we already talked about this. The benefit
Speaker 3: the employee will receive that is defined. Next question, how
Speaker 3: involved is the employee in kind of like operating this plan.
Speaker 3: The answer is not much. Employees typically have little to
Speaker 3: no say in how the assets are invested to meet
Speaker 3: their future defined needs. Next question is the plan portable
Speaker 3: and the answers. Benefits are often not easily portable if
Speaker 3: an employee leaves the company before retirement, unless the employer
Speaker 3: were to offer something called a lump sum pension payout
Speaker 3: option that typically represents the present value of their future benefit. Otherwise,
Speaker 3: if a lump sum option is not offered, former employees
Speaker 3: will often have to wait to collect a benefit from
Speaker 3: that former employer until a future date after they retire.
Speaker 3: And then the final question is how is the account funded.
Speaker 3: Employers are primarily responsible for funding the plan, although many
Speaker 3: plans have a required employee contribution as well. Again for
Speaker 3: our state of Wisconsin employees who are part of the
Speaker 3: worstf pension system, you know quite well if you look
Speaker 3: at your base dubs that the employer puts a contribution
Speaker 3: in for you, but you also are required to put
Speaker 3: in a contribution talking to So there you go, starting
Speaker 3: with that one. That is the kind of some questions
Speaker 3: and answers as it relates to the defined benefit pension point.
Speaker 2: Talk this morning with CJ.
Speaker 1: Closs and Eric Schwartz, our retirement planning professionals from Class
Speaker 1: Financial talk about the defined contribution. In just a moment,
Speaker 1: We've got a caller this morning. Terry joins us. Terry,
Speaker 1: welcome to the programming. You're on the air with CJ.
Speaker 1: Closs and Eric Schwartz of Class Financial.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Thank you. I am seventy five years old
Speaker 6: and I have a revocable trust in which there's a
Speaker 6: roth IRA that I just recently, with a review of it,
Speaker 6: my trust with my attorney, decided to change the beneficiary
Speaker 6: of the wroth from the that would go to the
Speaker 6: trust to an individual, and I was warned about what
Speaker 6: they call, I believe a look back period, and I'm
Speaker 6: just wondering if you could talk a little bit about
Speaker 6: that and tell me if should I it's something I
Speaker 6: should be alarmed about that if this goes to my
Speaker 6: requested beneficiary, that if I were to apply for Medicaid,
Speaker 6: that it would be analyzed and he could perhaps have
Speaker 6: to give back that money.
Speaker 3: M really good question. So I understand the premise of
Speaker 3: your question, Terry, but I'm just for all of our listeners.
Speaker 3: I'm going to kind of give the scope of your
Speaker 3: question to make sure that everybody's on the same page,
Speaker 3: and then I don't know that I'll be able to
Speaker 3: answer your question, but I'll do my best. So what
Speaker 3: Terry's getting at here is there's obviously he's asking some
Speaker 3: questions about naming beneficiaries outright. So you can name individuals,
Speaker 3: which has some benefits because then those individuals can use
Speaker 3: required minimum distributions a little bit differently than say a
Speaker 3: trust could, or you can list you can list those
Speaker 3: same individuals through a trust, but sometimes those trusts, depending
Speaker 3: upon if they have the right see through provisions or
Speaker 3: not have different treatments around rmds. However, trusts also have
Speaker 3: some asset protection or risk protection associated with them. The
Speaker 3: second part of Terry's question here is around the Medicaid
Speaker 3: spend down rules. We've done entire shows on this, but
Speaker 3: it has to do with if I want to protect
Speaker 3: my assets against Medicaid the required Medicaid spend down aka,
Speaker 3: I go into a nursing home and I've got to
Speaker 3: like spend all my own own money before Medicaid kicks in.
Speaker 3: There's often a look back period associated with that. Now, Terry,
Speaker 3: to get to your question, I'm not quite sure the
Speaker 3: context of your question, because typically the look back period
Speaker 3: would be with money that you gift outright to two individuals,
Speaker 3: so there would be a typically a five year lookback
Speaker 3: on that, or money that you put into an irrevocable
Speaker 3: trust for purposes of.
Speaker 4: Avoiding the Medicaid spend down on that money.
Speaker 3: So those are typically the two ways that we see
Speaker 3: that look back period come into play. You reference to
Speaker 3: benefishery change, which to me, that money is not leaving
Speaker 3: your estate yet, So I don't believe there's a look
Speaker 3: back period when you're just changing beneficiaries. So I'm a
Speaker 3: little confused by the context of the question, but at
Speaker 3: least I've given you a high level of where these
Speaker 3: topics come up. Now let me pause, Eric, are you
Speaker 3: aware of anything else else?
Speaker 5: No, I was just thinking it feels like we're maybe
Speaker 5: crossing topics here with gifting now versus at death right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, Terry, what I would encourage you if if
Speaker 3: you know you still have questions, feel free to call
Speaker 3: our office or call back your lawyer or your advisor
Speaker 3: and talk to them about it. I think it's a
Speaker 3: great question. I gess we might be crossing wires or
Speaker 3: crossing topics.
Speaker 1: Terry, really good call, and thank you for taking time
Speaker 1: to forget You two can be like Terry, if you
Speaker 1: ever have questions, love to have you join us on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: We'll get you on the air with CJ. Closs and
Speaker 2: Eric Schwartz.
Speaker 1: Of course, they are our retirement planning professionals from Class
Speaker 1: Financial talking this week about various types of retirement plans,
Speaker 1: also contribution limits, and just before Terry's call, we were
Speaker 1: talking about defined benefit plans. Let's talk about defined contribution
Speaker 1: retirement plans and kind of walk through those those same
Speaker 1: points that we had with the with the benefit and
Speaker 1: go over to the contribution side.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna go through the defined
Speaker 3: contribution plans again. Those are the four one case four
Speaker 3: or three b's four fifty seven simple erase things like that,
Speaker 3: and we're going to go through those same questions. We're
Speaker 3: going to ask some core questions around what's being promised,
Speaker 3: who's bearing the risk, what is defined And you'll notice
Speaker 3: that the answers changed now. Right, in the traditional defined
Speaker 3: benefit pension plan system, you kind of get this sense
Speaker 3: of like, well, my employer kind of takes care of
Speaker 3: it all, and I just get a benefit in the future,
Speaker 3: kind of like Social Security, Right, I just somebody just
Speaker 3: magically takes care of it and I get income in
Speaker 3: the future. Well, now we're going to talk about defined
Speaker 3: contribution plans. So let's go through those same questions. First off,
Speaker 3: what is being promised, Well, there is no guaranteed retirement
Speaker 3: benefit amount, so we are not defining or guaranteeing or
Speaker 3: promising the benefit amount. Instead, the employee and or employer
Speaker 3: contribute a specific amount of money or percentage of a
Speaker 3: salary to an individual account for the benefit of the
Speaker 3: employee who bears the risk, Well, the employee bears the
Speaker 3: investment risk. The amount that is available at retirement for
Speaker 3: income purposes will depend upon the contributions made over the
Speaker 3: years along with the performance of the investments chosen by
Speaker 3: that individual, So the individual is choosing those investments. Next
Speaker 3: questions what's being defined? Well, the contribution amount is defined,
Speaker 3: not the future benefit. Next question how involved is the
Speaker 3: employee in these plans? And the answer is employees most
Speaker 3: commonly have a high degree of control over how their
Speaker 3: investments are allocated within this this type of a plan,
Speaker 3: and this of course impacts their risk and return profile
Speaker 3: or risk and return potential for the future. Next question,
Speaker 3: is the plan portable? The answer is these types of
Speaker 3: defined contribution plans are typically portable. When an employee leaves,
Speaker 3: they can typically take their vested account balance with them
Speaker 3: through various distribution options, including a rollover to a new
Speaker 3: employer defined contribution plan. And then final question, how is
Speaker 3: the account funded? The answer is, these types of defined
Speaker 3: contribution plans are typically funded by employee contributions and then
Speaker 3: often by an employer matching contribution and or profit sharing contribution.
Speaker 3: Now with these general questions and answers for these types
Speaker 3: of defined benefit and define contribution retirement plans. In our minds,
Speaker 3: it is important for our listeners to know that traditional
Speaker 3: defined benefit pension plans have become significantly less common over
Speaker 3: the years due to the complexity and cost of.
Speaker 4: Maintaining these plans.
Speaker 3: So again, what used to be known as traditional. By
Speaker 3: the way, whenever you hear traditional in our industry, just
Speaker 3: think the oldest version. So the oldest version used to
Speaker 3: be that employers would have these pension plans. It was
Speaker 3: very common, you know, fifty sixty, seventy years ago. Well,
Speaker 3: because of the cost and complexity and the risk to
Speaker 3: the employer, because again the risk is taking are the
Speaker 3: employers taken on that risk, they have become significantly less common.
Speaker 3: And beyond that, we Americans tend to like the feeling
Speaker 3: of control, and therefore we often desire the portability and
Speaker 3: flexibility of a defined contribution plan like a four to
Speaker 3: one k or IRA, because we feel this, Hey, if
Speaker 3: things go wrong, it's going to be on my merit
Speaker 3: darn it right, it's not going to be on my
Speaker 3: employer doing something wrong. So interestingly enough, Eric and.
Speaker 4: I really really appreciate.
Speaker 3: Traditional defined benefit pension plans, especially like the State of Wisconsin,
Speaker 3: one of the best run in the country. Like whoop
Speaker 3: whoop to the State of Wisconsin pension system. They have
Speaker 3: just killed it in the way that they have both
Speaker 3: funded and managed and invested the funds for that State
Speaker 3: of Wisconsin pension. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of
Speaker 3: our neighbors to the south in Illinois for their pension plan.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't matter. Pension plans can be great, but
Speaker 3: we Americans love our freedom and our choice, and so
Speaker 3: these four one ks and iras have become a lot
Speaker 3: more popular over the years. So basically, pension plans are
Speaker 3: still prevalent in some government and our union jobs or
Speaker 3: state at state jobs. However, the private sector is now
Speaker 3: dominated by defined contribution plans like four oh one ks
Speaker 3: and four oh three p's really good overview.
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Speaker 1: that next as Money in Motion with Coss Financial continues
Speaker 1: right here on thirteen ten. Wib E talking this morning
Speaker 1: with CJ. Closs and Eric Schwartz. They are our retirement
Speaker 1: planning professionals from Coss Financial. Their website Coss Financial dot
Speaker 1: com'ss k l aasfinancei dot com telphone number six O
Speaker 1: eight four four two five six three seven. Talking this
Speaker 1: week about different types of retirement plans and also contribution
Speaker 1: limits and let's uh, let's let's talk about those contribution
Speaker 1: limits this morning, and when it comes to uh limits,
Speaker 1: when it comes to those defined contribution plans, things like
Speaker 1: those four oh one k's and four h three b CJ.
Speaker 5: Actually, Sean, I think I'm going to take that chuck.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh perfect, Eric, I've at it.
Speaker 5: CJ's been hogging the mic.
Speaker 3: I gotta get on here.
Speaker 5: So you know, if we think about this and we
Speaker 5: use the same framework regarding the two most common types
Speaker 5: of retirement plans that CJ was just talking about, it
Speaker 5: actually makes a lot of sense. So if we start
Speaker 5: with a traditional defined benefit pension plans which CJ just referenced,
Speaker 5: are becoming more and more rare in the in the
Speaker 5: private sector, largely because the employer is in charge of
Speaker 5: fully funding that and they're making some pretty high level
Speaker 5: promises for payments down the road. And if we think
Speaker 5: back to how the employer is primarily responsible for the funding,
Speaker 5: the investment decisions and all the risks associated with that,
Speaker 5: it shouldn't be a big surprise that contribution limits for
Speaker 5: these types of plans work very, very differently than for
Speaker 5: defined contribution retirement plans, and differently in that we really
Speaker 5: don't have contribution limits on the traditional defined benefit pension
Speaker 5: plan side of things. Instead of that, they actually limit
Speaker 5: the amount that the limit the amount of the benefit
Speaker 5: that the employee can receive on the back end. Okay, so,
Speaker 5: in a roundabout way, the benefit limitation does impact and
Speaker 5: influenced the amount employers must contribute, but the irs doesn't
Speaker 5: really say, well, you can only put x amount in
Speaker 5: there per year. The core principle of a traditional defined
Speaker 5: benefit pension plan is that there is a promise of
Speaker 5: a specific retirement benefit. So that's usually expressed as a
Speaker 5: monthly income amount, and it's typically calculated based on factors
Speaker 5: like your salary history or yours of service, you know,
Speaker 5: things like that. The the Internal Revenue Code does set
Speaker 5: limits on the maximum annual benefit that can be paid
Speaker 5: to a participant from a traditional defined benefit pension plan,
Speaker 5: and in twenty twenty five, that limit is two hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty thousand dollars. Okay, So, Sean, if you have
Speaker 5: a really, really really generous pension plan in retirement, you're
Speaker 5: gonna have to find a way to get by in
Speaker 5: about twenty three thousand bucks a month. So I don't
Speaker 5: know if that's if that's gonna work, but you know,
Speaker 5: it is a pretty high limit.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can swing that one air.
Speaker 5: There's a good I let's say there's also a limit
Speaker 5: based on you know, employee comps. So the annual benefit
Speaker 5: it generally can't exceed one hundred percent of the participant's
Speaker 5: average compensation for their highest three consecutive calendar years. So
Speaker 5: again we're not we're not limiting the amount going in
Speaker 5: on the front end so much as we're looking at
Speaker 5: at the back end and how much the employee can get. Now,
Speaker 5: one other piece here the amount that the employer needs
Speaker 5: to contribute to the plan each year. It's it's not
Speaker 5: a fixed amount, so instead contributions are determined by someone
Speaker 5: called an actuary who makes projections about future benefit payments
Speaker 5: and investment returns, and they determine, based on those calculations
Speaker 5: how much the employer actually needs to put in there
Speaker 5: so that in the future, when when employees take benefits
Speaker 5: from the plan, there are actually dollars there to make
Speaker 5: those payments. So again, no limit on the front end,
Speaker 5: mostly just limiting the amount that employees can receive in retirement.
Speaker 1: Talking this morning was Eric Schwartz, CG Class or Retirement
Speaker 1: Plan Professionals from class financial website COLSS financial dot com.
Speaker 1: That's Class K l A A S Financial dot com
Speaker 1: and they're TELF number six So eight four four two
Speaker 1: five six three seven. Eric, I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: more to this, isn't there.
Speaker 5: Yes, there's a lot more to this, and ct I
Speaker 5: think I might let you go into what that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So, as Eric just was saying, I mean again,
Speaker 3: on the defined benefit pension plan side of things. The
Speaker 3: limitation is on the back end in terms of the
Speaker 3: amount that you can receive based on kind of different formulas,
Speaker 3: the contributions that you put into it. Again, you're typically
Speaker 3: not going to have access to those contributions is a
Speaker 3: single lump sum value. So the IRS is less concerned
Speaker 3: about that and not to mention because the employer is
Speaker 3: the one making the contributions, there's less tax hit to
Speaker 3: the government on not restricting contributions. So I know for
Speaker 3: a lot of you are going, huh, well, employers have
Speaker 3: a lot of ways of deducting income. Whether they're a
Speaker 3: pastor entity or a sea corp, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: They typically have a lot of ways to reduce their
Speaker 3: taxable income. Individuals, on the other hand, are pretty limited, right,
Speaker 3: you don't have a lot of ways to reduce your
Speaker 3: taxable income. There's retirement account contributions, itemized deductions, but you know,
Speaker 3: maybe some depreciation on rental properties, but you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to generally pay.
Speaker 4: Some income tax.
Speaker 3: And so that's why when we start shifting to talk
Speaker 3: about defined contribution plans, that's where the clear limitations start
Speaker 3: to kick in. So if we think back to how
Speaker 3: the employee is primarily responsible for funding defined contribution plans
Speaker 3: along with investment decisions and risk associated with it. It
Speaker 3: should come as no surprise that contribution limits for these
Speaker 3: plans are more defined. In a defined contribution plan like
Speaker 3: four one K, four through B, traditional IRA, so on
Speaker 3: and so forth, there are specific maximum contribution amounts and
Speaker 3: limitations announced annually by the IRS. So here are some
Speaker 3: of those twenty twenty five contribution limits for defined contribution
Speaker 3: plans based upon the account type. And remember that many
Speaker 3: of these figures are adjusted annually, so when I tell
Speaker 3: it to you this year, by twenty twenty six, it'll
Speaker 3: be a different number. So let's begin with four H
Speaker 3: one K, four H three B and most four to.
Speaker 4: Fifty seven plans.
Speaker 3: The employee Elective Deferral limit aka the amount the employee
Speaker 3: can contribute for anyone under the age of fifty is
Speaker 3: twenty three thousand, five hundred dollars in the year twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. If you are over the age of fifty,
Speaker 3: you are generally eligible for a catchup contribution of an
Speaker 3: additional seven thousand, five hundred on top of the standard
Speaker 3: twenty three thousand, five hundred. However, if you are specifically
Speaker 3: age sixty, sixty one, sixty two, or sixty three, you're
Speaker 3: eligible for an additional eleven thousand, five hundred dollars in
Speaker 3: a catchup contribution instead of only that seventy five hundred
Speaker 3: dollars catchup contribution. So again, twenty three thousand, five hundred
Speaker 3: is the base. There's a catch up contribute for those
Speaker 3: who are over fifty, and that catchup is seventy five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars unless you're sixty, sixty one, sixty two, or
Speaker 3: sixty three, and then the seventy five hundred dollars number
Speaker 3: goes away and the number is actually eleven five. Are
Speaker 3: you confused yet?
Speaker 2: A little bit? Go ahead as they talk with CJ.
Speaker 1: Class and Eric Schwartze Klass financ telephon umber six oh
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Speaker 1: Picking up with with a little of that confusion, let's
Speaker 1: let's let's move on to the next point there.
Speaker 4: CJ.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, everybody, people often say do you
Speaker 3: really need a financial planner? And I go, no, It's
Speaker 3: just I spend all day every day doing this and
Speaker 3: I still have to look.
Speaker 4: Up the code to remember.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I mean, maybe I'm just not that smart,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people can keep a lot more
Speaker 3: stuff in their brain. But this stuff has complicated and
Speaker 3: shifting every single year, and so there's a reason why
Speaker 3: we exist to help people navigate all of this. But
Speaker 3: with that being said, so saying all of this information
Speaker 3: in a slightly different way, here are the maximum deferrals
Speaker 3: you can make into your four one K, four h
Speaker 3: through B and forty seven when including basic elective deferrals
Speaker 3: and catch up contributions just as like a total annual amount.
Speaker 3: So for those forty nine years forty nine years old
Speaker 3: and younger, the max you can put in is twenty
Speaker 3: three thousand, five hundred. For those age fifty or older
Speaker 3: but not sixty, sixty one, sixty two, or sixty three,
Speaker 3: the max you can put in is thirty one thousand.
Speaker 3: For those who are specifically age sixty sixty one, sixty two,
Speaker 3: or sixty three, the max you can put into these
Speaker 3: types of plans is thirty five thousand, Now, all these
Speaker 3: figures do not include the separate but combined total contribution
Speaker 3: limits for any one employee after accounting for the employee
Speaker 3: limitation in combination with the employer contribution which can be
Speaker 3: added by the employer through a matching contribution or profit
Speaker 3: sharing contribution.
Speaker 4: So on and so forth.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, we just don't have enough time during the show
Speaker 3: today to dig into what that limitation is. But what
Speaker 3: you should know is what we just went through there.
Speaker 3: Those numbers are just for the like employee elective deferrals,
Speaker 3: what you put in out of your paycheck. There is
Speaker 3: actually another limitation for but what if my employer wants
Speaker 3: to put in profit sharing or matching dollars? Can they
Speaker 3: put in you know, two hundred thousand like Eric was
Speaker 3: talking about before. And the answer is no, there's a
Speaker 3: total contribution limit there, But we just don't have time
Speaker 3: to dig it.
Speaker 2: Talk this morning with CJ.
Speaker 1: Closs and Eric Schwartz, our retirement planning professionals from Class Financial.
Speaker 1: Of course, the website colss financial dot com. That's Coss
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Speaker 1: down the home stretch and get the Class quiz last week.
Speaker 1: We'll do that next. As Money in Motion with Coss
Speaker 1: Financial continues right here on thirteen ten, Wuiba talking this
Speaker 1: morning with CJ. Class and Eric Schwartz, our retirement planning
Speaker 1: professionals from Class Financial. They're telephone number six oh eight
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Speaker 1: It will be complimentary to you again. They're number six
Speaker 1: oh eight four four two five six three seven. And
Speaker 1: as we're talking this week, CJ, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the things I sometimes, because you guys do such a
Speaker 1: great job laying this stuff out on a very high level,
Speaker 1: I do think sometimes people think some of this stuff
Speaker 1: is maybe a little a little simpler than it may
Speaker 1: actually be. That we're talking very very nuanced, very you know,
Speaker 1: pretty significant impacts making sure that things are done right.
Speaker 1: And as we kind of take it down the home
Speaker 1: stretch here, let's kind of wrap this up and talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about some of the other other bullet
Speaker 1: points that people really need to keep in mind here.
Speaker 2: CJ.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know you're right, Sean.
Speaker 3: I mean, and it truth be told when you do
Speaker 3: what we do and you communicate with people in many
Speaker 3: different forms. Obviously we have this radio show, we meet
Speaker 3: with people individually, and then we will do presentations to
Speaker 3: large groups. I do get the sense of being it
Speaker 3: being woefully inadequate for us to try to go through
Speaker 3: these numbers on the error now. Now, maybe some of
Speaker 3: you are at your desk right now writing down these numbers,
Speaker 3: and if you are.
Speaker 4: God bless you, I'm so thankful that you have the
Speaker 4: ability to do that. Others of you are on the
Speaker 4: road right now going. Do you think expect me to
Speaker 4: remember this stuff?
Speaker 3: And it's kind of the answer is no, no, I
Speaker 3: expect you to kind of maybe retain a little bit
Speaker 3: and up your IQ a little bit, but hopefully it
Speaker 3: helps you.
Speaker 4: Seek good advice at some point.
Speaker 3: But let's just quickly go through a couple other types
Speaker 3: of defined contribution retirement plans and the limitations associated with
Speaker 3: those from a contribution standpoint. So again, let's talk about
Speaker 3: simple irays in twenty twenty five, if you are under
Speaker 3: fifty the maximum you can contribute as an employee to
Speaker 3: your simple IRA plan is sixteen thousand, five hundred. If
Speaker 3: you're fifty or older, as an employee, you can contribute
Speaker 3: sixteen thousand, five hundred plus a ketchup contribution of another
Speaker 3: thirty five hundred, bringing your total maximum contribution up to
Speaker 3: twenty thousand. And then, similar to the four oh one
Speaker 3: K and four h three B world, if you are
Speaker 3: specifically aged sixty, sixty one, sixty two, or sixty three,
Speaker 3: you can do that same sixteen thousand, five hundred, but
Speaker 3: your catchup is larger, and that ketchup is five thousand,
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty, bringing your total maximum contribution up
Speaker 3: to twenty one thousand, seven hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4: Once again, this.
Speaker 3: Is only the limit for the employee contribution and does
Speaker 3: not include any total contribution limits when you add employee
Speaker 3: and employer.
Speaker 4: We just don't have time for that today.
Speaker 3: And then finally moving on to the contribution limits for
Speaker 3: traditional irays and wroth irays. Now remember these are typically
Speaker 3: not sponsored by employers. These are typically like, I just
Speaker 3: work somewhere that doesn't have a retirement plan, and I
Speaker 3: I want to contribute to a retirement plan. But there's
Speaker 3: no sponsoring by my employer.
Speaker 4: What do I do well?
Speaker 3: That's often where traditional iras and wroth iras come in.
Speaker 3: So talking about contribution limits. If you're under fifty, the
Speaker 3: maximum you can contribute to a traditional or wroth iras
Speaker 3: seven thousand dollars in twenty twenty five. If you're fifty
Speaker 3: or older, you can contribute seven thousand, plus a catch
Speaker 3: up contribution of another one thousand, bringing your total maximum contribution.
Speaker 4: Up to eight thousand.
Speaker 3: However, here's the key. Your ability to deduct contributions made
Speaker 3: into your traditional IRA may be limited by your modified
Speaker 3: adjustic gross income in any calendar year. Furthermore, you may
Speaker 3: not even be eligible to perform a roth IRA contribution
Speaker 3: if you're modified adjust gross income is too high under
Speaker 3: certain circumstances. So here's what I want everybody to understand.
Speaker 3: Each of these types of defined contribution retirement plans has
Speaker 3: their own limits and their own rules. You'll notice, in
Speaker 3: like the simple IRA world and in the four to
Speaker 3: one K four H three B world, we didn't really
Speaker 3: talk about income limitations. You could be earning ten million
Speaker 3: dollars a year and still max out a four oh
Speaker 3: one k plan, there's no income limitations.
Speaker 4: But then when we.
Speaker 3: Talked about traditional iras and roth iras, I said, there
Speaker 3: might be limitations if you earn too much or if
Speaker 3: you're magized too high. And it's not even that you
Speaker 3: can't contribute, you might just not be able to deduct.
Speaker 3: It's it's again back to God bless you if you
Speaker 3: can keep this all in your head. We barely can,
Speaker 3: and we do this for a career. So I would
Speaker 3: just encourage you if you're going to try to navigate
Speaker 3: through define contribution to find benefit over multiple employers over
Speaker 3: decades of a career, you can quickly get the sense
Speaker 3: of why we have a job to help people navigate
Speaker 3: all of this to make wise decisions that hopefully then
Speaker 3: as you get to retirement, help you maximize the lifestyle
Speaker 3: you're looking for.
Speaker 1: It's a really good day to start that conversation. You
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Speaker 1: Traditional defined benefit pension plans have become significantly less common
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Speaker 1: Sean doctor, take care, Eric, Doctor Marty Greer join us
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