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Old Oct 7th 2016, 11:54 pm
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Originally Posted by robin1234
Well, obviously exchange rate movements are a different matter. There are a lot of risks in life.
That's why if possible it's best to live in the country which uses the same currency as your income. That was one good thing about earning euro's , you didn't suffer from exchange rate fluctuations across europe.
Unfortunately it's hard , if not impossible to convert pensions into local currency.
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Originally Posted by robin1234
I think most workers get somewhere between 12k and 24k in SS when they retire, so it would double that notional 15k income .... it would pay for quite a bit ....
Hopefully it will still be the same in 20 years time, but they keep saying the SS money will run out at some point. Also I am not sure if the prediction from the pension company was in today's money or in predicted income in 20 years time.
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Originally Posted by mrken30
Hopefully it will still be the same in 20 years time, but they keep saying the SS money will run out at some point. Also I am not sure if the prediction from the pension company was in today's money or in predicted income in 20 years time.
Social security is already out of money as money isn't "saved", it is either paid out or spent. The government will always pay it, just the value of what is paid will probably go down.
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