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Old 04-26-2007, 12:37 PM
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set up a roth IRA and you should be able to transfer your entire 401k there without getting hit by taxes i believe

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This is wrong, money that goes into, or gets converted into, a Roth IRA is always post-tax money. He can do a conversion to a Rollover IRA, then to a Traditional IRA, without having a job, but in order to make future contributions, he needs earned income.
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