Events Search
  Summary & Check Out (0)
Monday, December 7, 2020 Webcast

Social Security and Medicare: Planning for You and Your Clients (E2012141)

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Registration: 8:30 AM EST

Webcast


8 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

Social Security seems poised for changes in benefits and eligibility age. This course provides tax and financial planning professionals with the background information on the Social Security system, strategies clients will need in dealing with Social Security and myriad other retirement-related planning issues.

This course features a live instructor and has been specifically designed for the NJCPA.

DESIGNED FOR

Practitioners who have clients contemplating receipt of Social Security

BENEFITS

  • Identify who is entitled to retirement benefits and in what amounts
  • Identify factors to consider in determining when to take benefits
  • Discuss 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 and tactics that can enhance overall retirement
  • Explain Medicare and the prescription drug provision; describe the basic supplementary insurance plans that are available to fill in the gaps in basic Medicare coverage

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Legislative developments
  • A full chapter devoted to determining the best planning options for maximizing joint Social Security benefits
  • Retirement benefits: Amount of benefits in various circumstances; how the amounts are distributed within the family unit
  • Qualification: Has the client retired? How business entities may be used for Social Security advantage
  • Income taxation of Social Security: avoidance tactics
  • 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?
  • When can hiring the spouse increase overall benefits?  Why should both spouses qualify for survivor benefits?
  • Disability benefits
  • When to start Social Security benefits: Advantages and disadvantages at age 62, full retirement age and age 70
  • 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?
  • Pensions: Distribution strategies; how to use the minimum distribution rules in concert with Social Security benefits
  • IRAs: Is it time to convert to a Roth?
  • Medicare and Part D prescription drugs: what retirees need to know

COURSE LEVEL

Basic

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

  • Qualifies for CFP credit

INSTRUCTOR

Douglas Stives

Douglas P. Stives, CPA, MBA

Specialist Professor

Monmouth University

Douglas (Doug) Stives, CPA, M.B.A. is a full-time professor of accounting at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, where he joined the faculty in 2006. Doug was honored as Monmouth’s Outstanding Business Professor of the Year in 2009 and 2016 and was awarded an Outstanding Educator award in 2021 by the New Jersey Society of CPAs. He graduated from Lehigh University with a B.S. in 1968 and an MBA in 1969. Doug started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1969 and later joined a small CPA firm that became The Curchin Group, located in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he was a partner for 34 years and continues as a consultant. In 1989 and 1990, Doug was the youngest president of the New Jersey Society of CPAs. He served the AICPA as a representative to Council, a member of the Tax Division Executive Committee, and chair of several committees. Doug is a frequent speaker for many state CPA societies. He’s been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and other national publications and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, PBS, NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, and several cable networks. Doug remains active with his college fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Society, where he served as national president for several years. He also served on many charity boards and was chairman of the Community YMCA in Red Bank, New Jersey. Doug enjoys competitive sailing and downhill skiing.