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If you quit Allstate, can you cashout your pension or do you have to roll it over. I want to cash out my pension but roll over the 401k. Can you do that??

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Post ID: @OP+1kLrMP9t

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401k money is your money (you contributed and the Company matched)... the pension is contributed to by the Company.

Check with the benefits people and see where things stand for YOU. Also, dependent on your years of service, you may have the Final Average Pay Account AND a Cash Balance Account. Newer employees only have the Cash Balance Account. The two different kinds of accounts have different criteria for transfer/withdraw/rollover. CHECK WITH THE RETIREMENT DEPARTMENT. They are knowledgeable and can most accurately answer these types of questions.

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Post ID: @4oen+1kLrMP9t

As an employee of 9 years (fully vested) that recently left and cashed out my pension - yes you can roll it into a 401k, IRA, etc, and also cash out.

There is a 10% penalty and it’ll be taxed as earned income.

I cashed mine, used the funds toward a rental property. The cash flow alone will pay me back for 10% penalty in a year, and the tax hit in 3 years. Pensions are a joke, speak with an advisor & accountant, then move your money out of it ASAP and into other assets.

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Post ID: @3mrt+1kLrMP9t

You can get your 401k at any time. Your pension yiu have to be 55 or older to get it.

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Post ID: @1dfo+1kLrMP9t

Yes, you can cash out your pension. I rolled over my 401k but had to wait two months after my date of separation before I could cash out my pension.

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Post ID: @1qqi+1kLrMP9t

Once you are vested, you can cash it out, I left last year, just go into alight and initiate retirement and as long as you are not working for another Allstate company you are good to go, doesn’t matter if you are retirement age or not, so many people here are full of sh-t, you will pay taxes though

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Post ID: @1ntq+1kLrMP9t

I quit last August and was GIVEN the option to cash my pension out and I got a check

Signed
Shaggy and Scooby Doo

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Post ID: @1ruz+1kLrMP9t

You don't roll over or cash out pension LMAO!!!

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Post ID: @ztp+1kLrMP9t

6 responses…5 different answers. Tells you all you need to know about the Mensas that reside here

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Post ID: @lxj+1kLrMP9t

Man, so much disinformation here. Why am I not surprised? Our HR Service Center is very helpful with questions like this, but of course you have to call them instead of depending on the negative clowns that rule this site.

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Post ID: @eok+1kLrMP9t

You have to be of retirement age when released to get pensions

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Post ID: @fbg+1kLrMP9t

I was laid off in 2020 with 7 years tenure and I had no claim to pension.

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Post ID: @ian+1kLrMP9t

Check with hr, but after 3 years you are vested in the 401 k and pension

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Post ID: @gde+1kLrMP9t

That's ridiculous. If you are vested, of course you get your pension. You just have to be of age.

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Post ID: @tde+1kLrMP9t

You get your 401k if you leave but you don't get pension unless you retire from Allstate. If you leave Allstate either by choice or laid off you have no pension. 401k yes, pension no.

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