Retirement tax questions

@dev145 

Thank you for your help for "TurboTax's Ask the Expert event" today.

 

I also have a question. If my pension amount is quite low (lower than $1000 per month), and my traditional IRA amount is also quite low, it is 6000 + bank interests (several hundred dollars), are the $6000 contribution and the bank interests taxable in the next year?

And I plan to provide volunteering works in my community. The info and basic cost could be filed in schedule A, right?

 

Thanks a lot.