Chattanooga Account Fest: Maximizing Your Social Security Benefits

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Description

The leading edge of the baby boomer generation has already reached retirement age. Financial and tax planners can expect increased demand for strategies that dovetail Social Security with other retirement and estate planning objectives. This course provides tax and financial planning professionals with both the background information on the Social Security system and the strategies clients will need in dealing with Social Security, and the myriad other related retirement planning issues.

Credits

Number of Credits Type of Credits
4.00 Taxes
3.33 CLE

Designed For

Practitioners who have clients contemplating receipt of Social Security

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of retirement planning

Highlights

  • Retirement benefits: What the amount of benefits is in various circumstances
  • Spousal benefits: Should a spouse return to work? What benefits does a spouse have and when and how do they relate to benefits decisions by the client?
  • Claiming Social Security: Advantages and disadvantages at ages 62, full retirement age and 70
  • Planning: What clients approaching retirement age should consider now with respect to benefits for them, their spouses and their children
  • Coordinating benefits: Should you take Social Security first and higher-balance IRA distributions later, or take IRA balances first and enhanced Social Security benefits later?

Objectives

  • Identify who is entitled to retirement benefits and in what amounts
  • Summarize the factors one must consider in determining when to take benefits
  • Discuss the taxation of Social Security benefits and how this impacts other income tax planning
  • Identify and describe the potential effects of retirement and estate planning strategies

Prices

Member (Early Bird)
$179.00
Non-Member (Early Bird)
$229.00
Member
$229.00
Non-Member
$279.00
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Instructors

William F. Taylor, CPA

Bill is President of Benefit Solutions, Ltd., a benefit consulting firm, and a CPA in private practice. Since retiring as Community Bank President of Renasant Bank in Water Valley, MS. he has served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the MBA program at the University of Mississippi. Bill has worked in the employee benefit and investment fields for over 20 years, beginning his career as the Employee Benefits Coordinator in the Jackson, MS office of KPMG Peat Marwick and managing his own firm since 1999.

A nationally known consultant and speaker, Bill has conducted seminars for the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, more than 40 state CPA and Bar associations and other organizations. Bill is the author of Taxation of Employee Benefits Volume I and Volume II, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications. Bill has been the recipient of the Association's Outstanding Facilitator Award on multiple occasions.

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