Substantially Equal Payments Relief

Substantially Equal Payments Relief If you initiated early distributions from your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) in the last couple of years using a Substantially Equal Payment plan, your annual distribution amount may be more than your current account balance can bear. You may think there is nothing you can do to alter your distribution amount and slow down the depletion of your IRA account. This is not true. The IRS now permits you to make a one-time, permanent reduction to your annual distribution amount. The primary purpose of an IRA is to accumulate assets for retirement. Therefore, distributions taken before age 59