90 years old and 233k is a “chance” at retirement…
We can’t keep ignoring this shit, it needs fixed and not just by donation websites.
At the risk of coming across as insensitive, I really wonder what happened in this guy’s life leading up to this. He lived through the “easy times” where boomers were buying houses on a single income, in fact he had a 10 year head start on them. The article says he only receives $1,100 from social security - so does he have $0 savings / investments at 90 years old? Genuinely curious, not taking a shit on him - this will be me at 90 too, if I last that long.
At 90 he would have qualified to retire in 1996. Very strong possibility he outlived his savings. Similar thing happened to a couple of my relatives who reached that age. They owned their homes. They were smaller homes too. But on fixed income the property taxes were awful. We worked it all out in the end. But it was hard getting them to even open up that help was needed.
Mental or physical problems, ptsd, whatever. Many ways you can get fucked over by life.
Yeah true. It said he was an air force veteran. The world is a scary place.
$233,000 is not retirement money.
That’s just over $6k/year in interest at a modest 5%.
Or at his age he can take an extra ~$20k+/yr for a while of straight cash. Might be the better choice.
You might want to check your calculator again. $233k * .05 = 11.65k
I agree that this isnt anywhere close to lavish retirement money but if he withdraws $20k/ year plus takes his full social security payments, he can probably replace the cart pusher wages. So that’s still retirement money, just a modest retirement.
