Not sure if this is the best subreddit to ask so feel free to direct me to a different sub if appropriate.

I worked as a public employee and I had a real bad workplace accident which forced me to retire and now I collect my disability pension benefits. To supplement my pension income, I started a consulting business under a Single Member LLC.

The rules of my pension are that if I make more than what my former position’s base salary, it’s deducted from my pension benefits. For example (not real figures), if the salary of my former job was $100k/yr and my current pension is $50k, I’m only allowed to make an additional $50k. If I make more than an additional $50k, then my pension benefits will be adjusted so that I’ll only make $100k. If I earn more than $100k/yr , then I’ll forfeit all pension benefits. This restriction expires on my 50th birthday which was the pension plan’s earliest retirement age.

I didn’t anticipate making this much money and I really don’t want to “work for free” so I’ll admit it’s a good problem to have.

Can I pay myself as a W-2 employee and file my company’s taxes as an S-Corp? If I file my LLC’s taxes as an S Corp, will the LLC still show on my personal income like it did when I filed as a sole proprietor?

That way I can control my personal income and just invest the rest of the companies profits until I turn 50 which is about 15 years away.

Thanks!

  • bright1111@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Grow your business through reinvestment. Would you ever lose your pension all together? Let’s say you do 200k this year so you are paid 0 pension, but if next year is a slow year and you only bill 50k, will you still get the 50k from pension? And if you stop consulting all together in a few years, will you then begin collecting the 100k again?