Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die

Re:Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die by theunixbeard on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:34PM (#20196341)

“The forum assumed retirees would need enough income to cover 70% of their pre-retirement pay, and didn’t include Social Security or other government welfare payments in the total.”

The above caveat is pretty huge...

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Re:Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die by symplee on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:53PM (#20196456)

Exactly. If that number were arbitrarily changed to 60% and did include Social Security, well, there goes the news article.

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Re:Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die by DennisP on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:38PM (#20196767)

So they're excluding what the government is doing, to argue that the government needs to do something.

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