The Importance Of Retirement Planning

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Aging American must now secure other streams of income for retirement to secure their lifestyle.
In her article, ‘Understanding Retirement Planning’, Sue Haggerty stated that “the most important aspect of retirement planning is understanding what your income replacement rate needs to be during retirement in order to maintain your pre-retirement lifestyle.” Consequently, knowing the replacement rate helps put the retirees in a position to avoid cutbacks. Haggerty conveyed, ordinarily the retiree does not need to have 100% of their pre retirement income after they retire due to the fact that Retirees do not have to pay into Social Security. Additionally, since they are retired there is no need to spend funds on work-related items. Surprisingly, …show more content…

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