Withdrawing your money from 401(k)
- If you apply for withdrawal after the age of 55 years, you will not be liable for penalty.
- As you attain the age of 59 years and 6 months, you are permitted for withdrawal, according to the government rules.
- At the age of 70 years and 6 months, the minimum required deposits will be enforced upon you. This is very essential as it is the last phase of your life, when you will be able to maximize the benefits from your retirement account.
In addition to this, the minimum required distributions are forced at the age of 70 years and 6 months as it helps the federal government to receive taxes that were due to them a long time back. The forced MRDs at the age of 70 years and 6 months are an essential requirement for every IRA holder as if he fails to withdraw at that age of his life, he faces a penalty that ranges up to 50 percent of the MRD that has not been withdrawn. After 70 years and 6 months your MRDs will be developed after calculating your 401(k) savings and divide it equally for the time that you are expected stay alive; expected life is determined from the expectancy factor from Uniform Lifetime Table.
If your wife is much younger than you and is your lone beneficiary, your life expectancy will be developed from a factor known as the joint life expectancy factor. The life expectancy of the your wife is more and thus, it divides your retirement amount into smaller amount of MRDs.
The employers have different mechanisms to deal with retirement accounts if the employee chooses to leave the company before retirement. Employers may permit you to keep your retirement account with him, even after you leave him but some of them don't allow their former employees to keep their accounts with them. However, if you are still working after the age of 70 years and 6 months you will not be forced to take the minimum distributions.
You may face certain misfortunes that will force to withdraw money from your post retirement account. You will have to apply for the 401(k) hardship withdrawal, if caught in some emergency. This requires you to define your hardship and if your hardship qualifies for the €hardship withdrawal€, you will be allowed to withdraw your money without facing the penalty.