Ages for financial planning

Sep 29, 2006 1 Replies

T Rowe Price sent it's lateest issue (Sept-2006) this week. One article I found informative listed ages for financial planning milestones. However for my own purposes I found some issues missing.



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50 (catch up contributions)
55 (can take distributions from employers retirement plan without 10% penalty)
59 1/2 (can take traditional IRA withdraws without 10% penalty)
62 can start taking SS with a 25% reduced payout
65-67 can start taking SS
70 maximum SS benefit
70 1/2 must start taking RMD's from traditional IRAs

What I was looking for and did not see:



What age to consider LTC insurance? Any tax deductions which are correlated to age? Not sure, but thinking it might be worth discussing. Is their a maximum age someone would have $$ in a traditional IRA? meaning RMD's would eventually exhaust account from IRS tables, correct? What age is this? I would assume this would be someone which lived longer than the life expectancy table.



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What age to consider LTC? When are you going to need it. Could be any age. Life's a beach. I asked an eldercare lawyer that question two days ago. He said 40. So, forty works for me. I will leave the second question for an account. The third question is confusing. You have to start taking money out of a traditional IRA on the April 1st following the date you reach 70 1/2. If your IRA is extraordinarily well managed you could have moolah forever. It would never be exhausted.

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