For 2025, you can defer up to $23,500 into your 401(k), and workers age 50 and older can make an extra $7,500 in catch-up contributions. Starting this year, workers age 60 to 63 can make "super ...

Catch-up contributions have always been a powerful way for people in their 50s and early 60s to turbocharge retirement savings, but 2026 reshapes how those extra dollars work. Higher limits, new ...

Last year, the IRS issued final regulations related to limits set by the SECURE 2.0 Act to pre-tax contributions that employees aged 50 or older can add to their 401(k) plan as of January 1 this year.

Older high-income workers who make contributions beyond the standard amount will have to put that extra money into a Roth 401(k). That may lower their take-home pay. By Ann Carrns If you’re a ...