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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

$6,000 interest is just from the annuities—I didn’t make that clear.
o8ibelieve 07-12-2018 02:01 PM
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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

FYI- your taxes are still deferred with IRA CD’s. No paying taxes until you withdraw money, just like regular IRA’s, plus we get a slightly higher rate. We weathered two bad stock markets, but at our age we cannot do that again, so we have the majori...
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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

If you are considering retiring early, you should have a plan in place first. I retired at 56 and my husband waited to full retirement age at 66. He gets social security and I get a state teachers pension. Teachers and administers can retire at 55 in...
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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

I retired at 56, in 2007, and have been eternally grateful for it 10 years in. I was and educator, and the last six years of my career, a school administrator. The economy was in shambles, 600 teachers were laid off in my district, the stress was ove...
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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

$6,000 interest is just from the annuities—I didn’t make that clear.
o8ibelieve 07-12-2018 02:01 PM
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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

FYI- your taxes are still deferred with IRA CD’s. No paying taxes until you withdraw money, just like regular IRA’s, plus we get a slightly higher rate. We weathered two bad stock markets, but at our age we cannot do that again, so we have the majori...
o8ibelieve 07-12-2018 01:57 PM
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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

If you are considering retiring early, you should have a plan in place first. I retired at 56 and my husband waited to full retirement age at 66. He gets social security and I get a state teachers pension. Teachers and administers can retire at 55 in...
o8ibelieve 07-12-2018 09:21 AM
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Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

I retired at 56, in 2007, and have been eternally grateful for it 10 years in. I was and educator, and the last six years of my career, a school administrator. The economy was in shambles, 600 teachers were laid off in my district, the stress was ove...
o8ibelieve 10-16-2017 10:42 AM
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Retirement

Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

$6,000 interest is just from the annuities—I didn’t make that clear.
o8ibelieve 07-12-2018 02:01 PM
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16009
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Retirement

Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

FYI- your taxes are still deferred with IRA CD’s. No paying taxes until you withdraw money, just like regular IRA’s, plus we get a slightly higher rate. We weathered two bad stock markets, but at our age we cannot do that again, so we have the majori...
o8ibelieve 07-12-2018 01:57 PM
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Retirement

Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

If you are considering retiring early, you should have a plan in place first. I retired at 56 and my husband waited to full retirement age at 66. He gets social security and I get a state teachers pension. Teachers and administers can retire at 55 in...
o8ibelieve 07-12-2018 09:21 AM
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10779
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Retirement

Re: Retiring early - share your experience! Please!

I retired at 56, in 2007, and have been eternally grateful for it 10 years in. I was and educator, and the last six years of my career, a school administrator. The economy was in shambles, 600 teachers were laid off in my district, the stress was ove...
o8ibelieve 10-16-2017 10:42 AM
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