My husband receives monthly payments from his ex-wife's Avaya retirement plan under a QDRO from their divorce. He turned 70.5 in October 2017. We have never received any notification from either Avaya or the USPBGC (who is now administering the retirement plan because Avaya went bankrupt or something) about needing to take an RMD, or what that amount would be. However, this year, all of a sudden, TurboTax is saying we need to do this, which means we should have also been doing this for 2017 and 2019. Is it true he needs to take an RMD? If so, how do we know how much it would be -- is it based on his ex-wife's age/life expectancy, or on his? Do we need to file amended tax returns for 2017 and 2018, and excise tax for not making these payments in 2017, 2018 and 2019?
