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stock after it was acquired by the Plan. If you do a rollover for a payment that includes employer stock (for
example, by selling the stock and rolling over the proceeds within 60 days of the payment), the special rule
relating to the distributed employer stock will not apply to any subsequent payments from the IRA or employer
plan. The Plan administrator can tell you the amount of any net unrealized appreciation.
If you have an outstanding loan that is being offset
If you have an outstanding loan from the Plan, your Plan benefit may be offset by the outstanding amount of
the loan, typically when your employment ends. The offset amount is treated as a distribution to you at the
time of the offset. Generally, you may roll over all or any portion of the offset amount. Any offset amount that
is not rolled over will be taxed (including the 10% additional income tax on early distributions, unless an
exception applies). You may roll over offset amounts to an IRA or an employer plan (if the terms of the
employer plan permit the plan to receive plan loan offset rollovers).
How long you have to complete the rollover depends on what kind of plan loan offset you have. If you have a
qualified plan loan offset, you will have until your tax return due date (including extensions) for the tax year
during which the offset occurs to complete your rollover. A qualified plan loan offset occurs when a plan loan
in good standing is offset because your employer plan terminates, or because you sever from employment. If
your plan loan offset occurs for any other reason, then you have 60 days from the date the offset occurs to
complete your rollover.
If you were born on or before January 1, 1936
If you were born on or before January 1, 1936 and receive a lump sum distribution that you do not roll
over, special rules for calculating the amount of the tax on the payment might apply to you. For more
information, see IRS Publication 575, Pension and Annuity Income.
If your payment is from a governmental section 457(b) plan
If the Plan is a governmental section 457(b) plan, the same rules described elsewhere in this notice
generally apply, allowing you to roll over the payment to an IRA or an employer plan that accepts rollovers.
One difference is that, if you do not do a rollover, you will not have to pay the 10% additional income tax on
early distributions from the Plan even if you are under age 59½ (unless the payment is from a separate
account holding rollover contributions that were made to the Plan from a tax-qualified plan, a section 403(b)
plan, or an IRA). However, if you do a rollover to an IRA or to an employer plan that is not a governmental
section 457(b) plan, a later distribution made before age 59½ will be subject to the 10% additional income
tax on early distributions (unless an exception applies). Other differences include that you cannot do a
rollover if the payment is due to an “unforeseeable emergency” and the special rules under “If your payment
includes employer stock that you do not roll over” and “If you were born on or before January 1, 1936” do not
apply.
If you are an eligible retired public safety officer and your payment is used to pay for health
coverage or qualified long-term care insurance
If the Plan is a governmental plan, you retired as a public safety officer, and your retirement was by reason of
disability or was after normal retirement age, you can exclude from your taxable income Plan payments paid
directly as premiums to an accident or health plan (or a qualified long-term care insurance contract) that your
employer maintains for you, your spouse, or your dependents, up to a maximum of $3,000 annually. For this
purpose, a public safety officer is a law enforcement officer, firefighter, chaplain, or member of a rescue
squad or ambulance crew.
If you roll over your payment to a Roth IRA
If you roll over a payment from the Plan to a Roth IRA, a special rule applies under which the amount of the
payment rolled over (reduced by any after-tax amounts) will be taxed. However, the 10% additional income
tax on early distributions will not apply (unless you take the amount rolled over out of the Roth IRA within 5
years, counting from January 1 of the year of the rollover).
If you roll over the payment to a Roth IRA, later payments from the Roth IRA that are qualified distributions
will not be taxed (including earnings after the rollover). A qualified distribution from a Roth IRA is a payment
made after you are age 59½ (or after your death or disability, or as a qualified first-time homebuyer
distribution of up to $10,000) and after you have had a Roth IRA for at least 5 years. In applying this 5-year
rule, you count from January 1 of the year for which your first contribution was made to a Roth IRA.
Payments from the Roth IRA that 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).