Retirement & Pensions
CPP | OAS | RRSP
- Health & Aging ...
- AARP = American Association of Retired Persons (USA)
- CARP = Canadian Association of Retired Persons (Canada)
- Personal Financial Planning
- Working while retired ...
- Alan Simpson said it (NOT a Québécois senator).
- 8 Things You Should Know For An Early Retirement In Canada - CreditWalk.ca
- Calculators
- CIBC Imperial Service | Financial Solutions | CIBC Imperial Service
- City-Data.com - Stats about all US cities - real estate, relocation info, crime, house prices, cost of living, races, home value estimator, recent sales, income, photos, schools, maps, weather, neighborhoods, and more
- CPP = Canada Pension Plan
- In Québec, the equivalent is QPP = RRQ = Le Régime de rentes du Québec
- RRQ - CompuPension = RRQ - Simulation des revenus à la retraite
- Reality check: Is CPP going to be around when you retire?
- 13 Things You Need To Know About The Canada Pension Plan - Everything Zoomer
- Canada Pension Plan - Overview - Canada.ca
- Public pensions - Canada.ca
- Everything you need to know about the enhanced CPP — from how much you'll pay to how much you'll get
- The best time to start CPP —if you don't know when you will die
- Bear in mind that, like most pensions and annuities, CPP and OAS are income streams that "run out" or reduce upon the passing of a spouse, unlike personal assets that have both a survivor and estate benefits.
What does this mean?
- One thing the "delay CPP" crowd often forgets is the tricky issue of Survivor Benefits. We looked at this earlier this year but Diamond says that while you can receive both a CPP retirement pension and a survivor benefit, the sum of the two cannot exceed the maximum CPP retirement pension payable at age 65. So if both spouses wait until 65 or beyond and are at the maximum payout, there would be no CPP survivor benefit for the one who outlives the other. And OAS has no survivor benefit nor an estate value (CPP has a $2,500 death benefit).
- Should I collect CPP early?
You can begin collecting CPP as early as 60 or wait until 70 at the latest. However, the government will penalize you (subtract 0.6 per cent a month before 65 if you begin collecting early) or incentivize you (add 0.7 per cent a month after 65) if you defer it. To illustrate the difference, suppose your annual CPP benefit is $10,000 a year, if you begin collecting at 60, you'll be penalized $3,600 over the five years. Conversely, if you delay to 70, you'll collect an extra $4,200. Runchey says if you live to 80 (the normal life expectancy), it doesn't matter what age you start receiving benefits: "Based on the math, by 80 the total payouts will be about equal."
- Dummies
- ElderAction - Thanks to Caroline James for recommending this site.
- ESDC | Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) = (formerly called) Department of Human Resources and Social Development
- EverythingZoomer - 45+ lifestyle magazine
- FADOQ | Réseau FADOQ = Fédération de l’Âge d’Or du Québec
- Financial Post | Personal Finance
- Fiscal Agents - Canadian Money Centre Site
- FNEEQ (CSN) = Fédération nationale des enseignantes et des enseignants du Québec
- Google Search - Retirement Planning
- LeBelAge.ca - Retraite, argent, santé, voyages, loisirs et techno pour baby-boomers
- Lodging - Buy or Rent?
- Microsoft
- MoneyTalksNews
- MSN
- NCOA = National Council on Aging
- NYTimes
- OAS = Old Age Security
- OTPP - Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
- QuestionRetraite.qc.ca - Guide to financial planning for retirement.
- Retirement budget worksheet
- RRSP = Registered Retirement Savings Plan
- By the end of the year you turn 71, you need to either convert your RRSP to a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) or purchase an annuity (a monthly payment from an insurance company in exchange for your RRSP savings).
- Seniors.gc.ca
- The Montreal Gazette
- TD Canada Trust
- Retirement budget - Google Search
- Desjardins
- Investors Group
- Working while retired | see Career Topics ... (SOHO, Telecommuting, etc.)
- Are You Ready for Retirement?
- Vancouver Jewish Seniors Directory
- Financial Resources for senior citizens and retirement (USA) - | - Thanks to Brian Boyd for recommending these sites.