A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase retirement savings and security, to facilitate the provision of guaranteed retirement income for life, and to make the retirement plan rules simpler and more equitable, and for other purposes.
Retirement Savings and Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit tax-exempt retirement and employee benefit plans to include an automatic contribution arrangement; (2) revise the income limits for the tax credit for retirement savings contributions and extend such credit through 2010; (3) permit the contribution of up to $500 of unused health benefits under a health flexible spending arrangement to a qualified retirement plan or a deferred compensation plan; (4) permit direct payment of tax refunds to individual retirement accounts; and (5) exclude from gross income certain lifetime annuity payments; and (6) extend to six months the period for distributing excess contributions to qualified pension plans without penalty.
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) allow for certain retirement plan rollovers and annuity distributions; (2) treat Indian tribal pension plans as tax-qualified governmental plans; and (3) allow for changes in pension plan investment options.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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