Author - Jim Blankenship, CFP®, EA

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How to Bypass Mandatory Withholding on a 401(k) Distribution
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The Earnings Test is Specific to the Individual

How to Bypass Mandatory Withholding on a 401(k) Distribution

When you take a distribution from your 401(k), 20% is withheld automatically. How can you bypass this withholding?

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The Earnings Test is Specific to the Individual

This topic comes from a reader, J., who asks the following question: My wife is 62 and she works a part-time job earning around $23k per year. She is planning to retire in June, and so her total earnings for the year will be approximately $11,500. She would like to begin taking Social Security benefits right after her retirement. The question is this:  will her earnings test be based upon her “individual” earnings, or on the higher combined earnings of the two of us (I am still working, earning in excess of the earnings test amount)? Since her earnings of approximately $11,500 are under the $17,640 earnings limit, her earnings would not be reduced – but if the earnings test is based upon both of our earnings combined, her earnings would definitely be reduced. How does this work? My Response Each person’s earnings record is specific to that individual – […]

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