If you think your retirement money will be there when you need it, you may want to take a second look-and read an eye-opening book by a well-known tax advisor.
In "The Retirement Savings Time Bomb-And How to Defuse It" (Penguin, $15), acclaimed tax advisor Ed Slott shows readers how to protect and preserve their hard-earned savings. This essential resource explains in five easy steps how to distribute, roll over, withdraw and secure IRAs (individual retirement savings accounts) and prevent them from being annihilated by taxes and penalties.
Slott's plan is designed to help protect your retirement plan from taxes and penalties and parlay a retirement account into a tax deferred (or even tax-free) fortune.
Slott's new book from Viking is "Parlay Your IRA Into A Family Fortune," $24.95. Both are available where books are sold.