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Anonymous

27 Jun 2023

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I will be 39 this year. Have reached FRS in SA and foresee that I should be able to hit ERS when I retire so long as I continue to work and contribute to CPF.

Qns: I have used over $200k of CPF for my HDB. Does it make sense to voluntarily refund this amount back to CPF OA? Noted that the refund amount comes with acrued interest too. But since I will likely hit ERS, my current thinking is that I will eventually get back what I refunded when I reached 55 years old, right? I.e., CPF OA will just likely be similar to a savings account with a bank. It is also risk free interest compounded at 2.5%. Any other considerations I should note? Tyvm!

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Ace

05 Jul 2023

Maybe consider paying off housing loan (save interest) or topping up medisave yearly?

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LLy

01 Jul 2023

Imo, are you going to sell your HDB? If no, then I'd say don't bother with the refund, because when the flat get sold after you pass on, the accrued interests doesn't matter anymore.

If yes, then next question to ask is, are you risk-adverse or risk-taker; are you active or passive investor?

My spouse is sooo passive that I didn't bother with the risk appetite and advise for partial volunteering housing refund, because of the stability in keeping money in CPF.

We also started regular investing portfolios so that the investment is "auto-pilot" and hopefully get better returns.

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Just_Saying

28 Jun 2023

In the current high interest environment, it is fairly easy to beat that 2.5% interest you will be g...

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