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Personal Finance and Investing

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts) Sun Dec 11, 2011, 01:34 AM Dec 2011

One other thing you may want to do if you're trying to max out your retirement savings...

...is increase your contribution amount on your 401(k)/403(b) so that it will go up in January.

The new 401(k) contribution limits for 2012 are $17,000 if you're under age 50; $22,500 if you're 50+.

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