Say you and your spouse are expecting to live on $5,000 a month in retirement
Lets say...
- Your Federal Pension of $1,500 a month
- Social Security benefit of $1,200 a month
- You’ll take $1,000 a month from your TSP
- Your Spouse has a pension from their job of $800 a month
- And you’ll take $500 a month from your spouse’s 401(k)
- You estimate your retirement income to be $5,000 a month… but you forgot to figure in taxes.
^^^Please keep in mind this is just an example to demonstrate the impact of taxes. Everyone’s tax situation is unique, and there are often many other factors that affect your tax liability.^^
Let’s say for our example that you might owe about $400 a month in taxes.
So instead of $5,000 a month, you’re really getting $4,600 a month.