Roth Option Stinks, Still Use It?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Usually we're all about using the Roth option at work if it's available. What do you do if it's available but the plan really stinks?
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| 2:00.0 | And as I speak to you right now, I have not yet seen the brand new design for the website. Mark, presuming I like the design, when do we go live with the new stuff? |
| 2:11.0 | I'm thinking, I'm thinking Jan three, like the Monday. I think that that's sort of everybody's like, you know, the year's basically over now. |
| 2:20.0 | You know, some thinking maybe. Today we are talking to Kristen from Pittsburgh. Kristen, what brings you to us today? |
| 2:30.0 | Well, I was doing some planning for the new year. And even though I have four or three Bs, my husband and I both have four or three Bs, we have the option to maybe move into a Roth four or three B for the last about eight years of our career. We're both teachers. |
| 2:47.0 | And I was telling this to my friend and he said, well, when you retire with these pensions, you'll have to pay X number of taxes and all that. And then you'll have these four or three Bs and all this other stuff. |
| 2:58.0 | But it's what you don't know that will hurt you. And I just just don't know what I don't know. So that's why I wrote into you just to kind of pick your brain about maybe whether I should switch over to a Roth four or three B or should I continue going with the four or three B I have now. |
| 3:12.0 | So you and your husband are both teachers. How much do you guys earn together? |
| 3:16.0 | Together we earn about two 30. |
| 3:19.0 | Okay, great. And you have kids? |
| 3:22.0 | Yes. |
| 3:23.0 | How old do they? |
| 3:24.0 | 15 and 13. |
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