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Age 85

65: payouts begin100

“By age” means payments received before that birthday. At the payout start age, total received is $0. We assume payouts start on that birthday; actual payment and anniversary dates may differ.

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What these figures mean

The three payout patterns

Standard is illustrated as a level payout. Escalating rises 2% each year on the payout anniversary. Basic payouts can decrease as balances earn less extra interest; a starting quote alone does not reveal the future path. The optional Basic future is your explicit what-if assumption. CPF may adjust actual payouts over time.

All plans pay for life. The premium is used to provide lifelong income, including risk pooling. “Amount left” is not a total estate, a return calculation or money lost to a pool.

Timing, assumptions & limitations

Amounts are calculated monthly and displayed at annual birthdays through age 100. A birthday row excludes payments during the year ahead. Future inflows, policy changes and taxes are not modelled. Optional Standard suggestions interpolate published male-1971 examples at 65 only. No female or deferral multiplier is used. Optional Basic and Escalating starting amounts are clearly labelled historical-ratio planning assumptions. Change the payout start age only with matching CPF figures.

Basic's optional retained-RA model uses monthly growth before payouts and assumed premium funding from age 90. Depletion or surplus warnings indicate a mismatch between assumptions; they do not predict CPF's actual benefit. Standard and Escalating amount-left illustrations subtract cumulative payouts from the entered starting premium, floored at zero.

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