What If You Don't Need Your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD)? | Christy Capital Management

What do you do with an RMD that you don’t need? Now an RMD stands for required minimum distribution.

The government makes you take it. What if you don’t need it.

What should you do with it?

So under the current law, at age 72 you have to start taking required minimum distributions from your traditional IRAs and traditional TSPs and 401(k)s.

What if you are funding your lifestyle out of your pension and out of Social Security and you don’t need the RMD to fund your lifestyle?

What typically happens is that your traditional IRA will send you your RMD each year and it accumulates in your checking account.

At some point, the checking account may get big enough that you open up an investment account for taxable money and it starts accumulating there.

But is there some next step planning that you could do with that money?

We’re gonna go over several options that you could do with that excess money if you don’t need it to fund your lifestyle.


But if you are not age 72 yet, there are some planning things you can do now so that you don’t have to have RMDs later.

These RMDs can push you up into tax brackets that you may not want to be in. Let’s say you’re 55, 60, 65 you can do some planning now to manage the RMDs by either Roth converting enough money that you don’t have RMDs at all or at least Roth converting enough that the RMDs are manageable.

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