The Beauty of a Roth 401(k)
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Having a Roth 401(k) option is a beautiful thing, and nowadays many employers offer them, but the problem is that many employees have no idea the option exists. That's the gist of the latest conversation with Joel from Atlanta.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Call of the Week. We are presented by Marcus by |
| 0:07.8 | Goldman Sachs. This is your opportunity to tap into our collective brains, both me and Mark. I'm a certified |
| 0:15.5 | financial planner, just re-uped by the way, got my new card in the mail, so I'm |
| 0:19.6 | feeling good about that. And if we can help you out, we'd love to do so. |
| 0:24.0 | Just send an email, ask Jill at Jill on Money. |
| 0:28.0 | Ask Jill at Jill on Money. |
| 0:30.0 | That's what Joel did. |
| 0:32.0 | He's on the line, He's calling from Atlanta. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the program, Joel. What can I do for you? |
| 0:37.0 | Hey, thanks. It's good to chat with you. |
| 0:39.0 | Hey, so my wife and I are trying to figure out how to leverage some additional retirement vehicles |
| 0:48.0 | and we're kind of looking into something that I'm just learning about called After tax 401k and have some questions about that. |
| 0:55.2 | Sure. So tell me a little bit about yourselves. How old are you? So we are 55 and let's see empty nesters no debt zero debt make about 200 to 20 or something a |
| 1:10.9 | year yeah and max out our 401k's can't do the rock can't do any IRAs right and so |
| 1:20.0 | yeah so so now you know and I've got uh... i've got about three hundred fifty in retirement |
| 1:26.5 | uh... you know uh... mutual fund |
| 1:29.5 | i've got about uh... three hundred in cash in the house of about three 350 something like that so overall net worth about a |
| 1:35.7 | million or something got it and so yeah just looking at trying to figure |
| 1:40.8 | how I can save some more and and and one of the things I was looking at |
| 1:44.6 | was the after tax 401k and what I was reading about it and I just wanted to double check was you know you put money in after |
| 1:56.2 | tax and then when you leave your employer you can turn that or or roll that over to a Roth IRA and then it becomes completely tax |
| 2:07.5 | redistribution. |
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