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Lawyers.Com Defined Benefit Plan. A defined benefit plan is the traditional company pension plan. It is so called because the ultimate retirement benefit is definite and determinable as a dollar amount or as a percentage of wages. To determine these amounts, defined benefit plans usually base the benefit calculation on a combination of years of employment, wages, and/or age. These plans are funded entirely by the employer, and the responsibility for the payment of the benefit and all risk on monies invested to fund that benefit rests with the employer. Benefits typically are not payable until normal retirement age and usually are paid in the form of a lifetime annuity. Nevertheless, a large minority of plans permits lump sum payments at retirement. Monies received as a lifetime annuity will be taxed at ordinary income tax rates and are ineligible for rollover to an IRA. Lump sum payments may be transferred to an IRA to defer immediate taxation. On transfer to an IRA, the proceeds are subject to IRA rules and regulations. Five-year forward income averaging for lump sum payments was eliminated as of January 1, 2000. However, persons born December 31, 1936 or earlier retain the option to use 10-year forward averaging based on 1986 tax rates and to use the 20% long-term capital gains rate on benefits attributable to service prior to 1974. Under normal circumstances you may not take money from a retirement plan free of an early withdrawal penalty unless you are age 59 1/2. But that's not always true. If you leave your job in the year you reach age 55, you may take your qualified retirement plan benefits from that job free of any early withdrawal penalty. You must, though, pay ordinary income taxes on any money not transferred to a traditional IRA. People younger than 55 who receive qualified retirement plan benefits as income in a form other than a lifetime annuity are subject to an excise tax based on a premature distribution from that plan. The excise tax will continue until the retiree reaches age 59 1/2. If you're in this unfortunate camp, you'll be taxed on that benefit at ordinary rates and will be assessed an additional 10% of that sum as an early distribution penalty as well. Care to rethink that plan about retiring at age 50? Link For More Above Paragraph OCERS Free Advice Ask-A-Lawyer Smart Tip Inside  My Jar |
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