ERTW: To the extent that most people hold some cash as emergency savings, a TFSA is a good place to hold this because
of flexible withdrawal rules.
Not exact matches
That's why advisors emphasize the importance
of being
flexible with your retirement plan so you can adjust your
withdrawal rate as necessary.
On the flip side, pensioners could benefit from new measures to make ISA
withdrawals more
flexible and a new # 1,000 tax - free allowance on the interest payments
of cash savings for basic rate taxpayers.
But whatever initial rate you choose, you need to remain
flexible, say, forgoing an inflation increase or even paring your
withdrawal for a few years if a big market setback or higher - than - expected spending puts a big dent in the value
of your nest egg or spending more if a string
of stellar returns causes your nest egg's value to balloon.
You've got much more going on than us but we share several key things — the willingness to remain
flexible, no intentions
of returning to work, and keeping the
withdrawal rate low.
It has lock in period
of only 3 years, hence is more
flexible and liquid than PPF which has 15 years lock in and partial
withdrawals are allowed only after 6 years.
Amount
of penalty for early
withdrawal on the amount withdrawn for
Flexible CDs is 180 days interest.
Amount
of penalty for early
withdrawal on the amount withdrawn for Regular CDs, Jumbo CDs,
Flexible CDs and IRA CDs is 90 days interest on CDs
of 12 months or less, and 180 days interest on CDs over 12 months.
I would prefer to not put the excess in RRSPs because the TFSA is so much more
flexible in terms
of withdrawal in the case
of an emergency.
If the annual
withdrawals you need to take exceed your safe zone, and you don't think you can be very
flexible with your expenses, then you risk running out
of money sometime during retirement.
Additionally, Roth IRAs have income limitations in order to qualify, but are more
flexible regarding distribution and certain types
of early
withdrawal than Traditional IRAs.
Well, a recent study by David Blanchett, head
of retirement research at Morningstar, found that by being
flexible about how much you draw each year from your retirement portfolio — say, scaling back
withdrawals when the market is faring poorly and spending more when stock prices are surging — you may be able to get by while investing less in an immediate annuity than you otherwise would.
Another advantage
of the line
of credit is that both repayment process and
withdrawal are
flexible.
Of course, the numbers don't always tell the full story since TFSAs are somewhat more
flexible in that TFSA
withdrawals can always be re-contributed in a future year, while RRSP
withdrawals can not (unless you have unused contribution room.)
Over the years, the Roth IRA became popular because
of its
flexible options
of age limit and penalty - free early
withdrawals.
Withdrawals from a
Flexible Spending Account are tax - free if the money is spent on qualified medical expenses (see a list
of qualified medical expenses).
But being
flexible with the spending, using the CAPE - based
withdrawal rule (https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/04/15/pros-and-cons-
of-different-
withdrawal-rate-rules/), additional sources
of income including rental income, one should be able to weather that storm too.
The interests are also declared annually (currently 9.1 %) but this is less
flexible than PPF in terms
of withdrawal options.
In the case
of whole life policies, where the death benefit and cash value structure is less
flexible, there's no way to take a non-taxable
withdrawal from the policy, nor to just reduce the death benefit; however, it is possible to engage in a «partial surrender»
of the policy, which liquidates a portion
of the policy, returns a portion
of the cash value, and reduces the death benefit accordingly.