Anonymous
Hi, dumb question. If my RA has reached ERS of $256k at 40 years old for eg, the interest would just keep rolling on forever even though I already hit 256k?
Like there wouldn't be a cap at 256k, right? Thanks for your help!
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Elijah Lee
19 Nov 2019
Senior Financial Services Manager at Phillip Securities (Jurong East)
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Kelly Trinh
19 Nov 2019
Backoffice technical at financial services firm
At age 40 you have Ordinary Account (OA) and Special Account (SA).
Retirement Account (RA) gets formed at age 55 from the two (draw from SA first then OA) up to max of the prevailing FRS. Excess you can take out.
The interest on RA would roll up (no cap) but used for CPF Life which starts paying at age 65.
(golly the rules are complex)
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Hi anon,
Yes, the interest keeps rolling forever. Technically speaking, you won't have RA at age of 40, but I get what you mean.
There is no hard cap on RA or SA. Only MA has a hard cap.
For SA, you cannot top up via RSTU when you have hit the FRS.
For RA, you are allowed to top up to that year's prevailing ERS minus any interest gained. So you can easily have more than ERS in your RA.