Possible Health Issues, Can I Retire?
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
I am 61 and my husband is 59. We've been discussing my retiring next year and he would retire two years later when he is 62. Is this doable?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It is Friday, August 8th, and we are here trying to help guide you along your financial journey, wherever that takes you. And I want to be clear that this is a show that's about you. It's not about what Mark wants to do or I want you to do. |
| 0:22.0 | We are going to listen to what you want to do and try to give you a few different ways to get there. And sometimes you might take a longer route. Maybe it's a shorter route. One with tolls. One with no tolls. You know, we're like ways for your money. If you've got something going on, get in touch with us, |
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| 0:55.9 | And as soon as you do that, you're also going to start receiving |
| 0:58.8 | the blog post that I send out, right, Mark? That's going to happen automatically. So it's kind of |
| 1:03.6 | fabulous. Okay, today we are talking to Kim, who joins us from Pennsylvania. That would be the |
| 1:10.1 | Keystone State, right, Kim? |
| 1:11.8 | That's correct. |
| 1:12.7 | All right. |
| 1:13.1 | What's going on, girl? |
| 1:14.0 | What can we do for you? |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah, so my husband and I've been talking about when we want to retire. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm currently 61. |
| 1:20.4 | I'm thinking of retiring next year. |
| 1:22.6 | My husband, who's currently 59, would retire two years after that when he turned 62. |
| 1:29.0 | And I guess one of the things behind that is we both have parents with dementia. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh, no. |
| 1:34.1 | So sorry. |
| 1:35.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:36.3 | I guess we want to make sure we're able to enjoy life in case one or both of us has dementia in our future. |
| 1:43.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:44.0 | Isn't that just the worst? |
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