Doug, I will wade one stage further and offer your an illustration
Susan Travis: That HSA is $325,000 when you’re 65. That is a pocket of reassurance of medical costs in the future. So, that may even say, “Hmm, maybe I should pay for medical costs out of pocket now and really save on that HSA.” That isn’t for everybody, but that’s why you look at each individual situation and take that into account. It’s a huge benefit that people probably don’t even give a lot of thought to.
Doug Fabian: Great. So, Susan, I always like to talk about action steps, and what should our listeners be doing regarding our broad subject, tax and estate strategies, wealth strategies? What should they be going through? Take us through the process.
Susan Travis: Well, proceed this link here now first, I would say, don’t try to stay on top of everything by yourself. Get a trusted advisor and put them to the task of helping you put together that balance sheet and strategizing with you. This should include current income tax strategies and planning for you and your family’s future. We can break that down into tax strategies. Again, depending on your age, definitely contribute the maximum that you can into your 401k, because even with the changes that are coming with that, it still says that is a very good way to save.
Next on the other prevent of the, in order for there is the best estate bundle files when you look at the lay. Once again, it is how much your net worth is, exactly what Doug alluded in order to ahead of into the change in the existence exclusion, it’s going to go-down. Thus, let’s utilize it even as we obtain it, and you may why don’t we figure out the best way to explore one to. You will find done charitable trusts. You will find done loved ones limited partnerships. There are lots of various other methods to reduce your property and benefit your loved ones, never to the hindrance.
Doug Fabian: Susan, let’s also put on the list just to revisit that 529. You really piqued my interest with the 529 comments today. Sometimes, I think that that’s a savings plan option that gets overlooked, so what should listeners do regarding 529s?
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Susan Travis: We do projections. How many children, grandchildren, you want to provide an education for? And is it in the K-12 private school? Is it undergraduate? Is it graduate? Also, remember that you can change the beneficiary. So, we also try to project how much each child is going to need, how many years it is until they’re going to need it, because we don’t want to over fund them. What we find is sometimes children get scholarships, children don’t go to the college level that the grandparent may have wanted us to project for, and so being able to change that beneficiary is key. Now, those other changes and additional advantages that I’ve pointed out are now available on 529s, really make it worth revisiting.
Doug Fabian: Well, Susan, you have given us some great information, great action steps. Thank you so much for lending your expertise to the Science of Economic Freedom podcast, and I just want to say thank you for joining us today.
What if you devote maximum $step three,600 annually in an HSA regarding the ages of 29 as much as 65, and you may let’s merely say we have a beneficial 5% progress
Susan Travis: You’re more than welcome. I love doing this, and I think that’s what makes Mercer Advisors really special is we have a lot of people that went into financial planning because they wanted to help clients succeed. And we’re allowed to do that, and so, yes, please call us if we can help.
