Friday, June 19, 2009

Successful Completion of Retirement Roll Over

In today's world current jobless rate is very high, but still there is a good chance of getting several jobs in your life. As you leave one job and join another you have to deal with a retirement roll over.

If you leave one job, at that time it's the rule to take out all the funds from your retirement account. There is no way to keep your funds in that company. When you withdraw all the funds from the retirement account, at that time you are charged a 20% fee, adding to it the usual taxes for taking out your funds.

Do you know the way to get around with this 20% fee? Continue reading more and you will get to know.
Try to roll your retirement account to a qualified retirement account and you would be able to avoid that 20% fee. Be careful while you approach for this. Before informing your former company about rolling over your funds, find out the bank where you are going to roll over the funds.

Make sure that the check for your rollover funds are in the same name of the new investment company. After that, contact your current retirement fund account holder and do the check out. After you get the check from the current retirement fund account holder, roll it over to your new qualified retirement account holder. To complete this transaction, you have 60 days in hand, if you cannot complete the transaction within 60 days, then you need to bear the penalty.

Let me tell you one of the benefits of rolling over your retirement fund. This retirement savings helps you to maintain the deferred tax status. Penalties or early withdrawal fees will not be deducted from your account. And, this counts to be a huge benefit to you.

To let you know, while you roll over your retirement fund to a qualified account, you do not have to transfer your retirement savings again. Once you are done with this, you do not need to move your money over and over again as you change your employers. I think this is the most beneficial.

I hope, I would be able to help all my readers with the benefits and the strategic process of transferring their retirement fund account to a qualified retirement fund account.

2 comments:

  1. Nice presentation, good for some real information rather than so much of the deceptive stuff prodcued by our supposed "agents", aka financial advisors.

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  2. I am assuming you are discussing about moving from company sponsored retirement plan to IRA?

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