If you are diagnosed with hypersomnia, your doctor can prescribe various drugs to treat it, including stimulants, antidepressants, as well as several newer medications (for example, Provigil and Xyrem).
You may have your 2015 RMD made payable directly to the charity (provided it meets the IRS definition of a qualified charity), and then designate it as a qualified charitable distribution on your tax return. You'll have satisfied your distribution requirement, and you won't have to pay income taxes on that money.
By Denise Appleby AAA |. A: You can use your required minimum distributions (RMDs) to fund your Roth IRA as a Roth IRA contribution. This is because the source from which you take the cash to fund your IRA can be from any pool of cash that you have.