RET - Week 01 Slide Questions (W24)

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Retirement Planning Week 1 Winter 2024 Page 1 Canada Pension Plan Review Questions 1. What is the purpose of retirement planning? 2. What can you do if you have not saved enough funds to retire comfortably? 3. What are the three main sources of retirement income? 4. What is the Canada Pension Plan and how is it funded? 5. What four types of benefits are provided by the CPP? 6. What is your “pensionable employment” as it applies to the CPP? 7. What are your pensionable (or “contributory” ) earnings, as applied to the CPP?
Retirement Planning Week 1 Winter 2024 Page 2 8. You are a financial planner with Royal Bank earning $40,000 annually. Calculate your CPP contribution. What if you earn $80,000 annually? 9. You are an independent financial planner (i.e. entrepreneur) earning $40,000 annually. Calculate your CPP contribution. What if you earn $80,000 annually? 10. What is the contributory period for the CPP? 11. Who is eligible to receive CPP survivor benefits when the CPP contributor dies? 12. Who is eligible to receive CPP retirement benefits? 13. You retire at age 65 and begin receiving CPP benefits. Four months later, you become bored and decide to start your own business (or you receive a job offer) and return to work. How does this affect your CPP contributions and benefits? 14. What factors are taken into account when calculating your CPP retirement pension?
Retirement Planning Week 1 Winter 2024 Page 3 15. You want to retire at the end of the year. Given the following information, calculate your approximate annual pension. 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Pensionable earnings 68,000 63,000 60,000 56,000 51,000 Annual YMPE 66,600 64,900 61,600 58,700 57,400 Earnings ratio 16. How is your CPP pension affected if you choose to take early retirement? 17. How is your CPP pension affected if you choose to take late retirement? 18. If you retire at the normal retirement age of 65, you will receive a monthly pension from the CPP of $975 per month. Calculate your annual pension if you retire at age 61½ and at age 68½. 19. When should you start to receive your CPP pension?
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Retirement Planning Week 1 Winter 2024 Page 4 20. When is it advantageous to delay receiving your CPP pension? 21. What is the purpose of assigning your CPP pension? 22. CPP assignment is not permanent. How can it be terminated? 23. Karen and Ken, both age 65, have been married for the past 20 years. Ken has contributed to CPP for a total of 27 years and has earned a monthly retirement benefit of $788.75. Karen has made CPP contributions for 22 years and has earned a monthly benefit of $350. The marginal tax rates for Ken and Karen are 36% and 22%, respectively. Calculate their monthly and annual saving s if they decide to share (or “assign”) their CPP retirement pension benefits. (Comprehensive Practices in Risk and Retirement Planning, CCH/Advocis, p. 4-22) 24. Jim and Amy, both aged 65, were married 18 years ago. Jim has contributed to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) for 20 years, while Amy has contributed for 24 years. If Jim expects to receive $600 per month in retirement benefits from the CPP, and Amy expects to receive $900 per month, calculate how an assignment of their pensions will redistribute their monthly CPP incomes.