Carers Allowance Cash in Pension

Cavanbhoy

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Personal details

Age: 51
Spouse’s/Partner's age: 58

Number and age of children:2
20 and 21


Income and expenditure
Annual gross income from employment or profession:13k carers allowance
Part time work 5k annual
Annual gross income of spouse:
Invalidity pension 11k
Disablement pension 6k
DB pension 3.5 k
Monthly take-home pay
3000

Health ins 3k Annually

Type of employment: e.g. Civil Servant, self-employed. Carers Allowance
Invalidity
In general are you:
(a) spending more than you earn, or
(b) saving


Summary of Assets and Liabilities
Family home worth €250k with a €23k mortgage
Cash of €15k
Defined Contribution pension fund: €185k
In Irish life Setanta managed fund.
Buy to Let Property worth €150k
No Mortage
Prize bonds 35k

Family home mortgage information
Lender UB
Interest rate. Ecb plus .5


(No need to tell us the monthly repayments or what term is left)
950 2yrs left

Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc
Personal loan 1k left
Pay 250 monthly

Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes



Buy to let properties
Value: 150k
Rental income per year: 8.4k
Rough annual expenses other than mortgage interest : 500
Lender N/a
Interest rate
If fixed, what is the term remaining of the fixed rate?
Thanks in Advance
Other savings and investments:
40k in stablecoins Paying 100 euro per week

Do you have a pension scheme?
Dc plus avc total 185k

Do you own any investment or other property? No

Other information which might be relevant
3rd level to cost roughly 45k over next couple of years rental acc.

Life insurance: 320k Dual life
140 per month 20 yr policy 3 yrs left


What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
Main question would I be better off taking 25 % of pension fund now and leaving balance in Arf.
Or using savings etc to fund college
and letting pension sit
 
I am not sure you can afford to pay for your children to go to college from you income but you can from your savings.

You have an income of €3000 per month + ~€350 pm from rent income after tax etc.
Mortgage €950 pm
Loan 250 pm
Health Ins €250 pm
Stablecoins €433 pm. - is this income?
Life insurance €140 pm

Which leaves €1327 pm for food, heating, phones, car tax, insurance, electricity, clothes, etc. So are you living beyond your means?

Assets
€50K savings
€150K rental house
€40K in stable coins
€185K DC pension

At 20 & 21 I am guessing your children are already in university, so €3000 fees each and €11K-€14K for living away from home per annum.

Why do you have a personal loan at all? What financial issue made you decide you needed a personal loan rather than use your savings?

I would use the €90K in savings to pay off mortgage and personal loans.
Then I would use the €66K left to pay for the college education leaving €21K in saving (more than 6 months income which should be adequate) in a couple of years time.

After that concentrate on building a pension for yourself & spouse.
 
I am not sure you can afford to pay for your children to go to college from you income but you can from your savings.

You have an income of €3000 per month + ~€350 pm from rent income after tax etc.
Mortgage €950 pm
Loan 250 pm
Health Ins €250 pm
Stablecoins €433 pm. - is this income?
Life insurance €140 pm

Which leaves €1327 pm for food, heating, phones, car tax, insurance, electricity, clothes, etc. So are you living beyond your means?

Assets
€50K savings
€150K rental house
€40K in stable coins
€185K DC pension

At 20 & 21 I am guessing your children are already in university, so €3000 fees each and €11K-€14K for living away from home per annum.

Why do you have a personal loan at all? What financial issue made you decide you needed a personal loan rather than use your savings?

I would use the €90K in savings to pay off mortgage and personal loans.
Then I would use the €66K left to pay for the college education leaving €21K in saving (more than 6 months income which should be adequate) in a couple of years time.

After that concentrate on building a pension for yourself & spouse.
Yes the 433 is income
 
I am surprised you can get college grants for kids with after tax income of 3K monthly, A second home with no mortgage, €50K savings, €40K in stable coins
 
Carers allowance is exempt from Susi calculations, assets are not taken into acc but the rent, interest etc is. The threshold for a parial grant from susi with more than one child at 3 level is over 50k
 
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