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When Can You Stop, or Slow Down?

Your accounts from My Plan, projected across thousands of possible markets, after taxes, health insurance before Medicare and Social Security. See the chance your money lasts, and what moves it.

All amounts in today’s dollars

These are example numbers. Answer a few questions and every calculator fills in with yours, saved in this browser.

From your plan

Invested now, by tax type

What you paid in; gains above it are taxed when sold

Saving per year, both of you

$77,750 a year. College savings stay in the 529 and aren’t counted here. Keep traditional IRA balances at $0 so a backdoor Roth stays tax-free.

Your plan for later

Scenario

Spending per year, by phase

e.g. when the mortgage is paid off. Medicare premiums are included after 65.

Marketplace estimate before any subsidy

Spending guardrails Spend 10% less in years your investments are 20% below where they started

Income later

Social Security at 67

From your ssa.gov statements, per year

Both claim at

From the pension calculator; $0 if none

One-time events

Assumptions

Withdrawals: taxable, then pre-tax, then Roth. Pre-tax is drawn at least to the RMD each year from 75 (73 if born before 1960).

Stopping at 60

Simulating 5,000 markets…

Where each year’s money comes from

Spending includes health insurance · at the average return · federal tax

AgeSpendingSoc. SecurityTaxablePre-taxRothFederal tax
60first year$174,000$0$73,379$113,840$0$13,219
64taxable spent$174,000$0$0$200,436$0$26,436
67both claim$115,000$42,000$0$82,868$0$9,868
75RMDs begin$115,000$42,000$0$83,644$0$9,961

5,000 simulated return paths at 3.5% average return after inflation and 12% volatility. Federal tax on withdrawals: ordinary brackets, Social Security taxed by the IRS formula, capital gains at 0/15/20% plus NIIT, RMDs from 75; state tax simplified. Survivor benefits, IRMAA and ACA subsidies aren’t modeled yet. Returns are not guaranteed. Educational, not investment or tax advice.