February 9, 2025
Building Your Future: Retirement Savings for the Self-Employed
Self-employed individuals, freelancers, and gig workers often lack traditional employee benefits and retirement plans, leaving them responsible for their own retirement savings. The article outlines two main types of retirement accounts: defined benefit plans (like pensions) and defined contribution plans (like 401(k)s). For the self-employed, viable options include the Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA), Roth IRA, Solo 401(k), SEP-IRA, and SIMPLE IRA, each with different contribution limits
