> From: "bhavani" <http://www.adelphia.net/~bhavani> > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:53:56 -0500 > > Did you put money in an IRA for a deduction for 2002? No. I wanted to save it for my between-job status. > I want to put $7000 in (I hope). You can only put $3000/year max into IRAs; perhaps it's more if two people do it? I know that when you're over 59, you can tack on an extra $500/year (which makes $3500/year) to "catch up". It's a lot more for 401Ks ($15000, maybe?). I found http://www.2020insight.com/otherreports/iraincrease.htm which says something about this.