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.
According to IRS publication 590-A, the annual required minimum distribution (RMD) from your traditional IRA cannot be converted to a Roth IRA, says Tom Mingone, a financial planner at Capital Management Group of New York.You just have to satisfy the RMD requirement before you do a Roth conversion,â says Mingone. (If you arenât working and receiving earned income, you canât make a contribution to a Roth but once the money is in a traditional IRA, you donât need to have additional earned income to move the money to a Roth IRA.).