Not exact matches
At the end of each
period, there is a ten - day window where the funds may be
accessed without
penalty.
A Certificate of Deposit pays a higher rate of interest than a Money Market account, but you can not
access your money for a set
period of time — typically 12 to 24 months — without paying a
penalty.
Annuity investors with longer surrender
periods have several ways to
access their funds for any number or reasons without facing
penalties.
For online accounts, the chief
penalty is the
period necessary for the Automated Clearing House to move funds from the online account to a physical bank where it can be
accessed effortlessly.
As to the last part, if I understand your question correctly, money held in the Roth originally, and past the five year
period can be
accessed penalty free, but contributions only, not investment earnings.
If you are interested in having
access to your funds within a shorter
period of time without a
penalty, consider a CD ladder strategy.
The trade - off is that they lock your money up for a specified
period of time, and you typically have to pay a
penalty if you
access that money before the term of the CD is up.
Those points then translate into either monetary
penalties, or into a loss of
access to the TFWP for a
period of a minimum of one year up to a potential lifetime bar.
The rules were drafted with an eye to ensuring that the
penalty applies only to the limited group of taxpayers who choose to spend a substantial
period of time without coverage despite having
access to affordable coverage.