IW Retirement Planner Features

Unlike conventional retirement planning tools, IncomeWize incorporates taxes, complex Social Security rules, and real-world withdrawal planning.

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States and DC modeled for taxes
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Income & benefit types with category-specific treatment
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Interactive income, expense, and tax charts

Tax-Smart

  • Factors in tax liabilities across your retirement plan
    Federal, State, Capital Gains, Net Investment Income, and FICA
  • Includes Roth conversions and other tax optimization features
  • Differentiates between capital gains, dividends, and interest income
  • Sophisticated tax charts highlight opportunities for tax optimization throughout retirement
  • Accounts for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) and early withdrawal penalties Including IRA withdrawals before age 59½

Diverse Income Sources

  • Supports varied income types and associated tax and withdrawal rules
    Taxable, Tax-Deferred, and Tax-Free Accounts, plus Social Security, HSA, Pension, Passive Income, and Employment
  • Differentiates between primary and spousal income and benefits
  • Supports one-time and recurring income events like inheritance and lump sum pension distributions

Healthcare

  • Calculates Medicare Part A, B, and D premiums, including IRMAA surcharges
  • Models Medicare out-of-pocket expenses and pre-Medicare healthcare coverage
  • Supports Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) for medical expenses
  • Supports long-term care expenses

Support

  • Step-by-step "How It Works" guide and searchable in-depth FAQ
  • Contextual help tooltips throughout the Retirement Planner
  • PennyWize AI assistant for Retirement Planner and retirement-related questions
  • Direct support for Retirement Planner questions

Social Security

  • Enables exploring Social Security claiming decisions alongside your retirement plan
  • Helps maximize lifetime benefits with Social Security Maximizer
  • Estimates Social Security retirement, spousal, and survivor benefits
  • Covers major Social Security benefit rules
    Delayed Retirement Credits, Earnings Test, RIB LIM, Restricted Application and Deeming Rules

Flexible Expenses

  • Includes diverse research driven fixed and flexible spending strategies
  • Supports recurring and one-time expenses alongside everyday spending
    E.g. Child's Wedding or Tuition, Debt, Family Vacation

Stress Testing

  • Supports Monte Carlo stress testing to assess retirement plan risk
  • Estimates Probability of Success across 1,000 simulated retirement scenarios
  • AI-enabled investment growth and asset correlation modeling for more realistic stress testing
    Naturally factors in positive and negative investment years, including significant losses of 30 percent or more

Personalized Reports

  • User-friendly charts to visualize retirement plan outcomes
    Balances, Expenses, Income, Taxes, Cash Flow, Plan Confidence, Social Security Breakeven Year, and more
  • Dashboard-style summaries of income, taxes, non-investment income, withdrawal rates, and more
  • Comprehensive year-by-year view of modeled actions throughout your retirement plan
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