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COST OF LIVING MODULE
This module takes you through a fairly exhaustive routine to input
your cost of living in today's dollars. During calculations the program
assumes that all income above this amount goes into savings and begins to
draw interest. So don't fool yourself, be sure you have described a budget
that you can live within. This is probably the most common and most serious
mistake made in planning a retirement.
Expenses not subject to inflation are identified in this module so
that future years livng cost are not pushed unrealistically high by inflation.
Planned major expenses after retirement are provided for in this module as are
planned cash collections which you may be counting on. It is recommended that
at least one large contingency expense be entered into some future year.
Other income such as a spouse's pension may be totaled and added into
this module along with the level in percent with which that income will match
inflation.
If you feel that your costs of living will decline as you get older
you can adjust for that amount in today's dollars. The reduction will start in
the year you become, or would have become, 70 years old.