Why are the annual Roth contribution limits so restricted?
As a working senior (63) who barely just started retirement investing and wants to try to catch up with extra Roth contributions, why is there a set max limit of $8600 for a given year? Seems the govt could exponentially widen the yearly contribution limits for seniors even further, at least up to a certain max age of 70, perhaps?
It might also spur-on and encourage contribution by those who are realizing very late in life they don't have any substantial retirement acct to draw upon in 10-15 years, when they are in their 70's. Outside of this restriction, I still maxed out my 2025 & 2026 Roth before Apr15th. I'm maxing my company 401k weekly contribution, and dumped a lot of low interest savings into VT, for now, and will DCA into that till start of 2027, when I will max out the '27 Roth again,...then DCA again. Not sure if there is a better strategy?