• @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    $233,000 is not retirement money.

    That’s just over $6k/year in interest at a modest 5%.

    Or at his age he can take an extra ~$20k+/yr for a while of straight cash. Might be the better choice.

    • @Fermion@feddit.nl
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      146 months ago

      You might want to check your calculator again. $233k * .05 = 11.65k

      I agree that this isnt anywhere close to lavish retirement money but if he withdraws $20k/ year plus takes his full social security payments, he can probably replace the cart pusher wages. So that’s still retirement money, just a modest retirement.

    • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      56 months ago

      I mean, he’s 90. So he can safely take $15k/year in addition to his social security (if he lives past 105, he’ll at least be eligible for a care home). That gets him to the $2,500/month point he needs, but he’s completely vulnerable to inflation.

      • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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        46 months ago

        I didn’t want to get into a debate of how long he might live vs how conservative he would need to be with the money. Seems a bit grim of a discussion. I guess he could go out with a bang by spending it all on hookers and blow, but it’s really difficult to gauge how much he could get away with spending to maximize comfort in his remaining years and not leave too much money on the table.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          16 months ago

          didn’t want to get into a debate of how long he might live vs how conservative he would need to be with the money. Seems a bit grim of a discussion.

          That’s a conversation we all need to have at some point in our lives. That’s literally the heart of retirement planning. Nobody except for the very rich retires without doing that math and making some assumptions.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      My friend’s grandmother at age 90 is in a fancy retirement home and it costs her $90k a year. She had about 400k left and joked she was going to kill herself before she turned 95. She’s currently 94 and I’m really concerned.

      • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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        56 months ago

        Fuck these retirement homes. They are literally set up to suck every last dime out of elderly folks retirement funds and then kick them out to some Medicaid group home. Sorry you’ve got this worry on your family’s shoulders.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      6 months ago

      He’s 90 years old. He doesn’t need to worry about making that last for decades. He can put it into a 4% money market account, take $50k per year, and will probably have enough to last longer than he needs.