Archive for the 'College Saving' Category

Reducing income during retirement to qualify for healthcare subsidy

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

The recent passage of the healthcare overhaul has prompted me to look closer at the issue of early retirement. There is a choice to work less and spend more time with family. Or even retire early and have the government subsidies your health care insurance by keeping income levels below 4x the poverty rate (see [...]

Tax harvesting from 529 plan?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

If you started contributing to a 529 plan some time in 2007, the chances are that the plan is in the RED (with capital losses) due to the recent stock market conditions.
A thought came to my mind — since unqualified distributions from the 529 plan are taxable, is it possible to tax harvest from the [...]

Ohio State 529 plan lowers fees again

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Last September, I posted some information about the 529 plans that I am contributing to. The contributions have been on auto-pilot and I did not get the chance to check on the plans until today.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Ohio State’s College Advantage plan has lowered its fees again from May 2007. [...]