BONUS call: Can I Retire Early?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The idea of retiring early always sounds amazing, but there's a big time risk of calling it quits and having to dip into your nest egg too early in the game. That's the discussion we had with Lee from Germany. Have a money question? Email me here. Better Off is sponsored by Betterment. Please let us know what you think by leaving a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Better Off Bonus Call of the Week. |
| 0:06.0 | We're sponsored by Betterment, the largest independent online financial advisor. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, this is one of our favorite parts of the program. It's when we hear from you directly and what's going on in your financial life. |
| 0:17.0 | If you've got a financial question or you just want to make a comment and maybe on a guest that's been on recently, just give us a |
| 0:23.8 | holler. Our email address is Ask Jill at better off podcast.com. Ask Jill at better |
| 0:29.8 | off podcast.com. You got two chances to get on the air every week. |
| 0:33.6 | Tuesdays we drop this bonus call and then Thursdays after the longer interview. |
| 0:38.1 | We like to do a listener question of the week. |
| 0:40.7 | So today we're on the line with Lee and Lee you are calling from |
| 0:44.2 | Germany I understand is that correct? I am good morning to you. Well |
| 0:48.9 | afternoon here. Oh excellent what can I do for you? I'm a military retiree. I did 20 years of service in the military. |
| 0:56.7 | I retired two years ago. |
| 0:59.2 | I am now a government, I work for the Department of Defense in Germany so I'm a federal employee and |
| 1:06.7 | I guess I have a kind of a good problem to have but it's my problem so I'm looking for advice on what you give military retirees as to how they integrate |
| 1:16.4 | the pensions into the traditional programs for O'Lon K's Roth, PSP and the government |
| 1:22.4 | case. |
| 1:22.8 | Okay. |
| 1:23.8 | Oh, and I also want to say I am a big addict of this of this podcast and I will probably |
| 1:28.2 | get some grief from you because some of the things I say, I know you're against. |
| 1:31.5 | So this will be an interesting phone call. |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah I have nothing to I think we're friends let's start on the same page. |
| 1:39.2 | So you are 20 years that you gave of your life which is pretty awesome and are you you are currently receiving a pension of how much Lee? |
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