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how much money I would need when I retire
There was a report on this the other day. It was something like £17k per annum for a single person, £30k for a couple.
In today's money.
What sort of expenses go up as you grow older? Healthcare?
You won't be working that much, so you'll have to find something to do instead, and this will cost you money, probably.
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Our current outgoings are going to go down as we grow older
ok lol
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I'd class 'retirement' as when you stop working, and start withdrawing from your savings / investments / pension rather than contributing.
I think the rules on personal pensions are that you can start withdrawing 10 years before state pension age.
If you want to retire earlier than this you'll also need ISA investments to bridge the gap.
https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement is a good calculator. I'm budgeting £35k / year in today's money to have a comfortable mortgage-free retirement. That comes out to £2.5k / month after tax, which is tons.
Assuming no illness, bad investments, societal collapse etc
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I know there are multiple pension calculators out there that can calulate approx what you will accumulate as pension if contributed £XXXX monthly/annually etc
What I am struggling at is to figure out how much money I would need when I retire; still a n00b around this stuff but:
Basically I am happy to save for retirement but would be nice to 'understand' the goal.