How to Fund Your Fabulous Gay Retirement | Queer Money Ep. 551

How to Fund Your Fabulous Gay Retirement | Queer Money Ep. 551

Author: Queer Money October 17, 2024 Duration: 10:01

How will you fund your fabulous retirement?

Pensions are rare, Social Security isn’t enough, and retirement accounts are small. Let’s talk about how to fund your fabulous gay retirement.

In this Queer Money, we share a new tool that we are working on, which we will eventually share with folks in our Fabulous Gay Retirement Club. More to come on that soon. We use this tool as a way to determine who/what income streams we will use to fund our retirement. We think everyone will need more than one, especially if the primary is Social Security.

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