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Can you convert 401 K into an IRA?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Yes. Any financial institution which offers IRA accounts will be able to provide you with instructions for how to roll over your IRA into a 401(k).

There are three ways this can be done:

  1. Some 401(k) administrators will allow the IRA administrator to do the rollover directly. In other words, you give the IRA administrator your 401(k) account details, and they contact the 401(k) administrator on your behalf and transfer the money into your IRA.
  2. Some 401(k) administrators will roll over the money into your IRA directly. In other words, you open your IRA account, then give the 401(k) administrator the IRA account details, and they contact the IRA administrator on your behalf and transfer the money into your IRA.
  3. Sometimes the 401(k) administrator sends you a check and then you have to deposit it into your IRA. When it's done this way, sometimes the check will be made out to you, in which case you need to deposit it and write a check for the same amount to deposit into your IRA, and sometimes it's made out to the IRA directly, in which case you just have to mail it.

Note that if the check is sent to you and you don'tdeposit the entire amount into your IRA within a short time period, it can have serious tax implications, because it will be treated as a premature withdrawal from your 401(k). Don't do that.

Because there are so many different ways this can happen, you need to contact the 401(k) and IRA administrators directly to get the details about how to make it happen in your particular case.

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