A recently enacted change in law involving required distributions from tax-favored retirement savings plans does apply to the Thrift Savings Plan, the TSP has said. The law, P.L. 110-458, suspends for one year the general requirement under the tax code that account holders age 70 ½ and above must take certain minimum distributions from their accounts. The law does not affect those who first turned that age in 2008—they must still make a minimum withdrawal for that year, if they haven’t done so already, by April 1 of this year. Also, those taking minimum distributions in equal monthly amounts, as many of them do, won’t be able to totally stop those distributions, but they will be able to reduce them. The TSP says it will release further guidance soon.