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It is best to announce it before election, so that voters can wise up. Can they?https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...-medisave-retirement-accounts-q1-2025-4799831
Interest rate for CPF Special, Medisave and Retirement accounts dips to 4% in Q1 2025 from 4.14%
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CPF is not a retirement plan, it's a forced savings plan that is actually an asset depletion scheme. It's a major taxation which sinkies don't know about. When they take your CPF and pay you 4.5% but then invests it and makes 10%, the 5,5% difference is a tax. This is an ongoing monthly tax. The big capital one time tax is HDB. Where they build the flat for $100K or less and sell to you for $600K. The $500K is one time upfront capital tax.Just treat the CPF as additional taxation on your disposable income, and their antics will no longer affect you.
CPF is not a 'retirement plan'. Go study the Americans' 401k system, a real retirement savings plan, and compare it with whatever crap the CPF pretends to me. Know the difference.![]()
Unfortunately, a lot of stupid sinkies still don't get it. They do migrate, but they never renounce. So their CPF is still stuck in singapore. I would say only 1 out of 10 sinkies i know who left, actually renounce sinkieland shitizenship.Migrate you can withdraw all your CPF for good, fuck PAP
interest rates is just the smokescreen for you to grumble.........
the real killer is your cpf money gets stuck in cpf. progressively....withdraw every fucking cent possible before they change the goalposts again
nowadays you cant just walk into cpf with your IC and tell them you want to withdraw everything, got to make appt
sidenote, if you withdraw your OA or SA today you forgo all the interests earned for past 6mths or 12mths, must withdraw after dec 31 2024
u already lost money because the sing dollar has been appreciating against the US dollarWhen I reached 55, I withdraw whatever I can and do investing in US stocks and derivatives.. Trying to be not dependent on PAP Govt.
Exactly.interest rates is just the smokescreen for you to grumble.........
the real killer is your cpf money gets stuck in cpf. progressively....withdraw every fucking cent possible before they change the goalposts again
nowadays you cant just walk into cpf with your IC and tell them you want to withdraw everything, got to make appt
sidenote, if you withdraw your OA or SA today you forgo all the interests earned for past 3mths , must withdraw after dec 31 2024
The big capital one time tax is HDB. Where they build the flat for $100K or less and sell to you for $600K. The $500K is one time upfront capital tax.
next Jan SA close and move to OA 2.5% too ...https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sin...-medisave-retirement-accounts-q1-2025-4799831
Interest rate for CPF Special, Medisave and Retirement accounts dips to 4% in Q1 2025 from 4.14%
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