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Small 401(K) plan
originally posted: 11/22/2006
reposted: 2/18/2011 This post has not
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Q: How many employees do you need
to participate in a 401K plan?
A: One. In fact the greatest
number of new 401(k) plans started now are for one person businesses.
This does not mean that 401(k) plans are always best for one person
businesses and it seems likely that if these small business people had
full information on all of the options, they would likely have chosen a
different type of retirement savings plan. This is even more likely to
be true in a business that has more than one employee but only one
(usually the owner) will be covered by the proposed retirement plan. In
this case, a 401(k) plan is usually not the best choice.
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