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Now You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: New Pension Distribution Rules Allow More Flexibility
If you are one of the lucky few employees who participate in an employer’s defined benefit retirement plan, you previously had to choose between receiving your benefits in a lump sum or in annuity payments. However, in the final rule adopted by the Treasury Department, defined benefit plans are allowed to offer participants the choice of taking a portion of their benefit in a lump sum and the remainder in annuity payments.
These new rules are designed to increase a participant’s flexibility in designing his or her retirement income. As Treasury explained, on the one hand, for plans that permitted a distribution of either lump sum or annuity payments, many participants were reluctant to take the annuity payments and instead chose a lump sum to maximize their flexibility. Read More ›
Posted in Employee Benefits, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged annuity, defined benefit, distribution, lump sum, present value, retirement
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