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The Retirement and IRA Show

Social Security Benefits, IRMAA, and QCD Timing: Q&A #2517

The Retirement and IRA Show

Jim Saulnier, CFP® & Chris Stein, CFP®

Business, Investing

2.2673 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Chris discuss listener questions relating to Social Security spousal benefits, IRMAA relief, suspending Social Security for tax planning, and QCD timing with RMDs. (3:00) A listener enquires whether her 85-year-old mother, who recently remarried, must remain on her ex-spouse’s record for one year before switching to spousal benefits on her new husband’s record.(12:15) […]

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0:42.8

This is the retirement and IRA show coming to you from beautiful Northern Colorado.

0:48.4

Join us as certified financial planner Jim Sonier, as well as Colorado State University Finance instructor and certified financial planner Chris Stein, teach you about IRAs, 401ks, annuities, social security,

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pension plans, and estate planning in a fun and enjoyable show. Whether you are listening live

1:02.3

in Colorado or streaming from their website or iTunes podcast, Jim and Chris want you to know that

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they're available to help you plan for your retirement.

1:13.8

Just visit their website at Jimhelps.com.

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1:22.7

Now here's Jim and Chris with today's show.

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Well, hello and welcome to the Retirement and IRA show Q&A edition for this week.

1:33.9

Oh, excuse me, a little frog in my throat right off the bat here.

1:43.0

I'm going to keep my intro relatively short because we've got just an hour to record today as many questions as we can get to.

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And so, yeah, I don't have a lot to say.

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If you're new to the show, you all send us in questions and we do our best to answer them,

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at least on this version of the show. We also do an EDU show where we pick the topic and dive a bit deeper into a narrower set of items in any given show.

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