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Retirement Answer Man

What Income Sources are Included for the IRMAA Calculation?

Retirement Answer Man

Roger Whitney, CFP®, CIMA®, RMA, CPWA®

Lifeplanning, Retirementplanning, Financialplanning, Saving, Careerplanning, Self-improvement, Education, Retirementpodcast, Investing, Business, Investmentmanagement, Retirement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers. On this episode of Retirement Answer Man, Taylor Schulte from the Stay Wealthy Podcast joins me to answer your retirement questions. Grab your earbuds and join us for this episode full of your questions.

Make sure to listen to the pension or lump sum question to see how Taylor and I arrived at our differing opinions on what this listener should do with his pension.

OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE OF THE RETIREMENT ANSWER MAN

LISTENER QUESTIONS

  • [2:11] Which income sources are included in the IRMAA calculation?
  • [10:12] On the retirement podcast network
  • [12:35] How to use home equity as a retirement resource
  • [22:35] Which rules should be used for this inherited IRA?
  • [23:39] Why should I do a Roth conversion if I don’t want to?
  • [30:47] What can I do with my small annuity?
  • [36:01] Are closed-end funds good or bad?
  • [47:10] Pension or the lump sum?

TODAY’S SMART SPRINT SEGMENT

  • [57:18] What have you been talking about more than doing? Take action.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Define Financial

Stay Wealthy Podcast with Taylor Schulte

Retirement Planning Education Podcast with Andy Panko

Rock Retirement Club

Roger’s YouTube Channel - Roger That

BOOK - Rock Retirement by Roger Whitney

Roger’s Retirement Learning Center

Transcript

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0:00.0

The show is a proud member of the Retirement Podcast Network.

0:04.0

Welcome to the show dedicated to helping you not just survive retirement, but to have the confidence

0:09.6

because you're doing the work.

0:11.6

To really lean in and rock it. My name is Roger Whitney by day

0:16.1

I'm a practicing retirement planner with over 30 years experience, founder of

0:22.4

agile retirement management.

0:25.1

And for the last 10 years or so, I've hung out on this show,

0:27.8

maybe with you, noodling on this idea of retirement planning,

0:31.9

but most importantly, how do you actually do this

0:34.9

do it away so it doesn't become a second job or a new job but in a way that you can go create a great life

0:40.7

which is the whole point of the exercise. So today on the show we are

0:45.2

going to focus on answering your questions. We're going to answer our title question

0:49.9

on Irma what aspects of income are included in the modified adjusted gross income

0:57.2

Maya calculation in order to determine your Irma surcharge?

1:01.6

Don't worry, if that was Greek to you, I will explain.

1:04.9

And then after that, we're going to bring on Taylor Schulte, a excellent retirement planner,

1:09.5

founder of Define Financial, and host of the Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast.

1:15.0

To answer some of your questions, we go through a lot of questions.

1:18.0

Inherited IRAs, accessing home equity, pension versus no pension, a few others in there.

1:26.0

We're focused on answering your question, but you're also gonna get a lens into

1:30.0

what happens when you get two retirement planners that think about the stuff all the time.

1:34.7

What happens when you get them together?

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