are not qualified distributions will be taxed to the extent of earnings after the rollover, including the 10%
additional income tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies). You do not have to take required
minimum distributions from a Roth IRA during your lifetime. For more information, see IRS Publication 590-
A, Contributions to Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs), and IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions
from Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs).
If in-plan Roth Conversions are permitted (a rollover from a non-Roth account to a designated Roth
account in the Plan)
You cannot roll over a distribution to a designated Roth account in another employer’s plan. However, you
can roll the distribution over into a designated Roth account in the distributing Plan. If you roll over a
payment from the Plan to a designated Roth account in the Plan, the amount of the payment rolled over
(reduced by any after-tax amounts directly rolled over) will be taxed. However, the 10% additional tax on
early distributions will not apply (unless you take the amount rolled over out of the design
ated Roth account
within the 5-year period that begins on Jan
uary 1 of the year of the rollover).
If you roll over the payment to a designated Roth account in the Plan, later payments from the designated
Roth account that are qualified distributions will not be taxed (including earnings after the rollover). A
qualified distribution from a designated Roth account is a payment made both after you are age 59½ (or
after your death or disability) and after you have had a designated Roth account in the Plan for at least 5
years. In applying this 5-year rule, you count from January 1
of the year your first co
ntribution was made
to the designated Roth account. However, if you made a direct rollover to a designated Roth account in
the Plan from a designated Roth account in a plan of another employer, the 5-year period begins on
January 1 of the year you made the first contribution to the designated Roth account in the Plan or, if
earlier, to the designated Roth account in the plan of the other employer. Payments from the designated
Roth account that are not qual
ified distribut
ions will be taxed to the extent of earnings after the rollover,
including the 10% additional income tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies).
If you are not a plan participant
Payments after death of the participant. If you receive a distribution after the participant’s death that you
do not roll over, the distribution will generally be taxed in the same manner described elsewhere in this
notice. However, whether a designated Roth account payment is a qualified distribution generally depends
on when the participant first made a contribution to the designated Roth account in the Plan. Also, the
10% additional income tax on early distributions and the special rules for public safety officers do not apply,
and the special rule described under the section “If you were born
on or before January 1, 1936” applies
only if the participant was born on or before January 1, 1936.
If you are a surviving spouse. If you receive a payment from the Plan as the surviving spouse of a
deceased participant, you have the same rollover options that the participant would have had, as
described elsewhere in this notice. In addition, if you choose to do a rollover to an IRA, you may treat the
IRA as your own or as an inherited IRA. An IRA you treat as your own is treated like any other IRA of
yours, so that payments made to you before you are age 59½ will be subject to the 10% additional
income tax
on early distributions (unless an exception applies) and required minimum distributions from
your IRA do not have to start until after you are age 70½ (if you were born before July 1, 1949) or age
72 (if you were born after June 30, 1949). If you treat the IRA as an inherited IRA, payments from the
IRA will not be subject to the 10% additional income tax on early distributions. However, if the participant
had started taking required minimum distributions, you will have to receive required minimum
distributions from the inherited IRA. If the participant had not started taking required minimum
distributions from the Plan, you will not have to start receiving required minimum distributions from the
inherited IRA until the year the participant would have been age 70½ (if you were born before July 1,
1949) or age 72 (if you were born after June 30, 1949).
Designated Roth Account
If you choose to do a rollover to a Roth IRA, you may treat the Roth IRA as your own or as an inherited