Is a Roth IRA considered a pension plan?

under federal by laws or mandates?

Sivel S2009-05-10T11:28:37Z

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No it is not.

An Individual Retirement Arrangement (or IRA) and a Pension Plan are both types of retirement plans, but they are not the same thing.

Pension plans often times can be rolled into an IRA (roth or traditional) once a person leaves the company or retires. Since a pension falls under traditional IRA rules; rolling into a Roth IRA would cause a tax bill the year of the rollover.