Calculators for the questions behind the policy, built from the rules.
Twelve tools: how much life insurance, what long-term care will cost, the Medicare enrollment window, the income surcharge, and the survivor's tax bill. Each opens in a small window on your site, with its sources and the date it was reviewed, in plain English. Free to place, nothing to maintain, no form. Each ends by telling the reader to talk with a professional who knows their whole situation.
All 12 tools
Saving while you work
How Much Life Insurance Do You Need? (opens in a new window)
Sizes the life insurance a family would need from its parts: the income to replace, the debts, the final expenses, the education fund, and what is already in place.
Claiming Social Security
Social Security Claiming Calculator (opens in a new window)
Shows your Social Security benefit at every claiming age from 62 to 70 and what each adds up to over a lifetime.
Survivor Benefit Timing Calculator (opens in a new window)
Helps a widow or widower choose which Social Security benefit to take first, and when to switch.
Taxes in retirement
Will My Money Last? (opens in a new window)
Projects whether your savings will last, year by year, at the spending and assumptions you choose.
Pension or Lump Sum? (opens in a new window)
Compares taking a pension as monthly checks for life with taking the lump sum offered instead.
IRMAA Calculator (opens in a new window)
Finds the Medicare premium tier your income lands in and what it costs for the year.
IRMAA Appeal Checker (opens in a new window)
Checks whether you can ask Medicare to base your premium on this year's income instead of a return from two years ago.
Widow's Penalty Calculator (opens in a new window)
Shows how much more federal tax a surviving spouse pays on the same household income after the joint return ends.
Medicare, insurance, and long-term care
Long-Term Care Cost Projection (opens in a new window)
Projects what a period of long-term care could cost by the time you need it, and what set aside today would cover it.
Medicare Enrollment Window (opens in a new window)
Dates your Medicare sign-up window to your birth month and shows what a late sign-up costs for life.
Illinois Medicaid Long-Term Care Figures (opens in a new window)
Lists this year's Illinois Medicaid figures for nursing-home care and works out the penalty for gifts made in the last five years.
Illinois Private-Pay Runway Calculator (opens in a new window)
Estimates how many months of nursing-home costs a household can pay before Illinois Medicaid could take over.
Add these calculators to your blog
Copy it, paste it into a new post, done. Nothing to install, nothing to maintain.
A ready-made post for your blog, with every calculator above.
Change the intro to your own words if you like.
- 1Open Posts, then Add New, and give the post a title.
- 2Add a Custom HTML block (type /html). In the classic editor, use the Code tab.
- 3Paste, preview, publish. Do this as an administrator.
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All 12 tools are included. Change which ones
Saving while you work
Claiming Social Security
Taxes in retirement
Medicare, insurance, and long-term care
Why firms put these on their sites
- It ends with you
- Every tool closes by telling the reader to talk with a professional who knows their whole situation. The reader is on your site, so the next step is your door.
- Something to do, not just read
- A visitor who runs their own numbers stays longer than one who reads, and the number they get is the question they bring to you. Every figure traces to a statute, regulation, or agency release, and when the law moves, it changes here.
- In plain words
- Every tool opens with a plain-English line on what it does and where it stops, so visitors use it without help and know its limits.
Built by Joshua Mangoubi, CFA, MBA. Joshua is a financial adviser who likes building things that help people think clearly about money. We hope these are useful to you and your clients. The tools are educational estimates from primary sources, not advice. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.
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