DIRECT OR INDIRECT ROLLOVER FROM AN ELIGIBLE EMPLOYER-SPONSORED RETIREMENT PLAN
Eligible Person. You are an eligible person only if you were or are a participant in an eligible plan, the surviving spouse beneficiary of a deceased participant, or the alternate payee (spouse or former spouse) identified in a qualified domestic relations order. A nonspouse beneficiary may roll over to an inherited Roth IRA only as a direct rollover.
Eligible Plan. A distribution will not be eligible to be rolled over unless the distribution is made from an eligible employer-sponsored retiremint plan. A rollover contribution must be from one of the following eligible employer-sponsored retirement plans: qualified retirement plan (Internal Revenue Code Section (IRC Sec.) 401(a) (e.g., 401(k), profit sharing, money purchase pension)), annuity plan (IRC. Sec. 403(a)), tax-sheltered annuity plan (IRC Sec. 403(b)), govermental deferred compensation plan (IRC Sec. 457(b)), or federal Thrift Savings Plan.
Inelegible Rollover Distributions. The following types of distributions are ineligible for rollover.
- Required minimum distributions
- Distributions that ar part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (made over single or joint life expectancy or a specified period of 10 or more years)
- Hardship distributions
- Returns of 401(k) elective deferrals because of the IRC Sec. 415 allocation limitations
- Returns of excess contributions and excess aggregate contributions from a 401(k) or 401(m) plan
- Returns of excess deferrals (i.e., amounts that exceed the deferral limit)
- Plan loan amounts that are treated as distributions because of a default or because the loan does not meet the IRC Sec. 72(p) requirements
- Dividends paid on employer securities as described in IRC Sec. 404(k)
- PS 58 costs (associated with life insurance coverage)
- Permissible withrawals from eligible automatic contribution arrangements (generally within 90 days of the first automatic contribution)
Timeliness. If payable to you, the assets you receive from the distributing plan generally must be deposited into a Roth IRA within 60 calendar days.