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“I am now part of a group in society that I hadn’t realized I was joining,” writes Joyce White of Vancouver, in a First Person essay. “I’m one of the recently retired, mixing with the longer-time retired. They are taking me in, accepting me.
This small-town B.C. couple just wants to see all three of their children through to university before they cash out and retire. “We are very frugal,” Ivy writes in an e-mail. “We do all our own home repairs, shop at thrift stores and rarely eat out.” Both Ivy and Gabriel have defined benefit pension plans that will pay a combined $61,550 a year at age 65, indexed to inflation. That’s when their bridge, or early retirement, benefits end and they begin drawing Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security benefits. Their initial pensions in 2027, the first year they are both fully retired, will total $67,884 a year, including the bridge.Their retirement spending target is $65,000 a year plus $15,000 a year for travel.
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