To be honest, a home is more liquid than my 401 (k), since I can't really
touch my retirement money until about age 60.
Not exact matches
I haven't
touched a single penny of my
retirement money or interest / dividend income due to a severance I negotiated that just finished paying out in 2017, and my hustle to create many new income streams, see: Ranking The Best Passive Income Investments
When we shift our
retirement withdrawal rate to a level which does not
touch principal, we suddenly start changing the way we view
money.
You need to save
money after contributing to your 401k and IRAs since you can't
touch pre-tax
retirement accounts without a penalty until 59.5.
This 70 % refers to
retirement savings, so we are talking about
monies that will not be
touched for a minimum of 10 years down the road.
[Side note: I'm not
touching any
money in
retirement accounts for this purpose.
Older investors generally are more likely to need their
money sooner, but wealthy older investors may very well never
touch their investment capital or even their investments, depending on their
retirement income sources.
I know very little about
retirement plans and don't plan to ever
touch this
money until I retire but could this
money be of better use somewhere else?
To get an estimate of the amount of
money you will get each month from Social Security when you retire, you can get in
touch with the Social Security Administration at its Web site, or by phone at 1-800-772-1213 from 7 a.m to 7 p.m. Your employer's human resources department can supply or get for you an estimate of your monthly income from your
retirement plan.
The only real downside is that your
money is tied up in a
retirement account that you're not supposed to
touch until you're 55 or 60 or 65.
If at all possible, consider your
retirement money sacred and don't
touch it.
Even though you can not
touch the
money now, you will be deriving monthly benefit payments or a lump sum payment upon
retirement.
That will allow you to survive for a period of time without having to
touch your long - term
money or face penalties for withdrawing
retirement money.
Ultimately,
money you contribute to an IRA is
money you don't plan to
touch until
retirement age to avoid penalties.
If you're saving for
retirement in qualified plans, this
money will not be able to be
touched until you're typically 59.5 years old.
In a perfect world, you'd never
touch the
money in a
retirement account until your working days are over.
I realize there are some potential psychological benefits of having
money that you don't
touch until
retirement, but is there any other benefits to keeping them separate?
If you're young and just starting out, be as aggressive as possible as hopefully you won't
touch the
money until
retirement.
Based as it is on their own experience of early
retirement, the first two thirds of the book is where the real value - add comes, often
touching on themes we address here in Retired
Money.
This
money will be purely for
retirement and I will not
touch it until then.
Some people don't want to
touch their
retirement plan
money.
Fortunately, most of my
money was in
retirement savings in 2008 so I didn't
touch it but in hindsight wish I would have increased contributions.
After the five - year waiting period, where she doesn't need to
touch any of her
retirement account
money but is no longer working, the winners are Scenarios 2a and 2b.
• Keep a reserve fundâ $» even if you donâ $ ™ t plan to
touch retirement savings to pay off the mortgage, be sure to have enough
money in your emergency fund to cover six months of living costs; otherwise, you could end up tapping
retirement accounts anyway.
I put all my
retirement savings on auto - debit, so they automatically were transferred over without me having to
touch the
money.
But other benefits make a big financial difference to your life, too: A match in your
retirement account, for instance, is basically the same as salary (it's just
money that you won't be able to
touch for years and years).
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