* Federal taxes use 2026 ordinary-income brackets and base standard deductions, inflation-adjusted throughout the projection. The model estimates the federally taxable portion of Social Security using IRS provisional-income thresholds (assuming no tax-exempt interest), excludes Social Security from state taxable income, and treats pension and other modeled income as fully taxable. A $203/month Medicare deduction is automatically taken from each active, positive Social Security income stream and grows with General Inflation. A 7.65% FICA tax is automatically applied to Salary income. Temporary senior deductions, age-65/blindness additions, capital-gains rates, Roth treatment, and account-specific tax characteristics are not modeled. Withdrawals used to fund a shortfall are grossed up using the calculated effective tax rate.
Current Assumptions — independent from Proposed
* Adjust baseline inflation rates. Choose All to reinvest 100% of surplus, None to reinvest 0%, or Custom to enter a percentage. Any amount not reinvested is treated as spent. Reinvested surplus is distributed according to your Allocation Breakdown percentages.