Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

Has anyone on here successfully used the "rule of 55" for 401k withdrawals? Is it as simple as it sounds or is there a catch?
Yes. It is pretty simple. The catch is the money you withdraw has to come from your last employer 's 401k. When I made the withdrawal from mine, it even asked questions in the system to make sure I qualified under the rule of 55. The 1099 I got even had it coded as a rule of 55 withdrawal.
 
Yes. It is pretty simple. The catch is the money you withdraw has to come from your last employer 's 401k. When I made the withdrawal from mine, it even asked questions in the system to make sure I qualified under the rule of 55. The 1099 I got even had it coded as a rule of 55 withdrawal.

I may be wrong but I believe you can transfer old 401ks and traditional IRA investments into the current 401k, so long as your employer allows it. Then you have a greater sum to pull from if needed. I don’t think that negates the rule of 55 but @Adam Sandler can clarify.
 
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Well, 4% of 350M people would be about 14M. 1.1M would suggest Fidelity has about a 7.5% market share, and while I don't know what their actual market share is, that number passes a sanity test.

Point is, you could both be correct. I don't think the two stats are necessarily in conflict or mutually exclusive.
Oh, I'm not shooting for conflict. We just have a surprisingly large number of people that are in no way ready for retirement.
 
Yes. It is pretty simple. The catch is the money you withdraw has to come from your last employer 's 401k. When I made the withdrawal from mine, it even asked questions in the system to make sure I qualified under the rule of 55. The 1099 I got even had it coded as a rule of 55 withdrawal.
Thank you sir. I've got big plans for my 55th birthday (in 2048 😂)
 
I understood what you were saying about Fidelity, but the OP, or at least the one you responded to, said that 4% had "saved" $1M. To me "saved" implied a reference to accounts with an absolute value rather than real estate or other investments with a relative estimated value. That's why I was ok with testing against an implied market share knowing it excluded other bank accounts.

Yes, 14M is a large number, but those 14M aren't evenly distributed across the country. Exclude the wealthiest county from each state from that calculation and the absolute number and the percent would yield a different conclusion about prevalence.
So if you exclude the wealthiest people you'll be left with non-wealthy people? Shocking!
 
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I may be wrong but I believe you can transfer old 401ks and traditional IRA investments into the current 401k, so long as your employer allows it. Then you have a greater sum to pull from if needed. I don’t think that negates the rule of 55 but @Adam Sandler can clarify.
Why does the thought of receiving investing/retirement advice from a guy named @Adam Sandler sound dubious to me?
 
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