Social Security, Inheritance Strategy, SEP IRA Conversions: Q&A#2615

About this episode

Jim and Chris answer listener questions on Social Security strategies, inheritance planning, and SEP IRA conversions.

Jim and Chris discuss listener emails on Social Security claiming strategies, financial education electives for a college student, a listener PSA on podcast word counts, inheritance planning, and SEP IRA conversions. (11:15) A listener planning to delay Social Security to 70 asks whether proposed benefit caps should change that strategy. He also asks Chris for financial education course recommendations for his son at CSU. (35:45) The guys address a question from someone who discovered SSA shows zero earnings on their work record for a year they actually worked, following an overpayment dispute, and whether submitting a W-2 can correct the record and trigger retroactive back pay. (43:45) Jim and Chris share a PSA on podcast word counts, with a speaker-by-speaker breakdown to crown the King and Prince of Word Count. (49:30) A listener wants to create four separate Roth IRA accounts, each with one of their four adult children named as beneficiary, with the idea that any lifetime gifts to that child come out of their future inherited share. They ask whether this approach is more complicated than it needs to be. (1:09:30) George asks whether the money his son placed in a traditional…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim Saulnier, Chris Stein

Topics covered

• Social Security
• inheritance planning
• SEP IRA conversions
• financial education
• listener Q&A

Keywords

• Social Security claiming strategies
• inheritance strategy
• SEP IRA conversions
• financial education
• listener questions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CSU, SSA

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