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Knowledge base
MaxiFi User Manual
Getting Started
6
Getting Started
Setting Up Your Family
Finding Help
Importing Social Security History
Running Your Plan
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Basic Concepts
8
Maximizing Your Plan
Two Approaches and Two Purposes to Planning (why be so cautious?)
Discretionary Spending
Smoothing Living Standard/Consumption
Cash Constraint
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Understanding Reports
11
Lifetime Balance Sheet
Annual Saving and Withdrawal Report
Understanding Your Report
Alternative Profiles and Comparison Reports
Updating Your Data and Rerunning Your Base Plan
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Video Tutorials
11
Roth Conversions
MaxiFi Walkthrough
Reading Reports
The Retirement Date
Alternative Profiles
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Larry's Podcasts
9
MaxiFi's Full Risk Investing Lets You See the Good, Bad, and Ugly from Risky Investing
Finding the Holy Grail for Investors -- MaxiFi Planner's Upside Investing
Rescuing Your Retirement with Larry
Can AI Improve Your Finances?
Rescuing Your Retirement with Larry
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General Topics
Basics
10
How long will this take?
What will the report look like if I leave names blank?
I add up the yearly numbers but they don't match the lifetime totals. Why?
Why do you ask about child disability?
Inflation and Rate of Return Data
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Earnings and Pensions
12
How do I know if a pension is covered or non-covered?
Should my military pension be entered as a non-covered pension?
Why does my pension amount decrease every year when it should be inflation adjusted?
What if I don't have access to my deceased or divorced spouse's past covered earnings?
What If I'm past my full retirement age (FRA) but the software is asking for my estimated retirement benefit at my FRA?
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Social Security
23
What are the different types of Social Security benefits?
How does the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 affect me?
What are Childhood Disability Benefits (CDB), Social Security Disability Benefits (DIB) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits?
For benefit amounts or estimates, do you want the gross benefit amount before deductions?
What do you mean by past covered earnings?
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Maximized Social Security Report
11
How do I ensure I'll actually file as intended?
Do you account for lost earnings on investments I sell to allow me to delay filing for benefits?
How do I apply for Social Security benefits?
Can the software's estimates match AnyPIA's estimates if I'm under age 62?
Why does the software show one spouse claiming before their FRA and suspending soon after?
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Pro Features
1
How do I customize the report cover page?
Glossary
14
Child's Benefits
Covered Earnings
Disability Benefits
Earnings Deduction
Earnings Test
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Field-Specific Help
4
Growth Rate
Non-Covered Pensions and Retirement Accounts
Pension Percent Inflation Indexing
What-If (Planned) Benefit Filing Dates
MaxiFi Topics
Basics
22
How are inflation rate and nominal rate of return determined and used in MaxiFi?
Why does the maximum age of life default to 100?
End of Year
First-Year Accounting for Assets
Cares Act
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Insurance
6
How can I purchase a life insurance plan that decreases every year to match these numbers?
How did you come up with the life insurance coverage amount?
What if I don't see any life insurance recommendations?
How are Medicare Part B premiums calculated?
How do I enter Long Term Care (LTC) policy premium?
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Special Data Entry
13
Special Expenses and Receipts
Special Data Fields
Medicare B
Rates of Return
Capital Gains and Qualified Dividends
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Housing and Real Estate
10
Mortgage, property tax, homeowners insurance
One year in my plan has a large negative number in the Housing column, why is that?
Is my mortgage eligible for the higher pre-TCJA interest deduction limit?
How do I see the impact of paying off a mortgage early?
How do I model moving into a home I now rent?
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Spending
9
Why does my annual discretionary spending amount go up? I thought it was supposed to be the same every year.
One year in my plan has a large negative number in the Total Spending column. Why?
How do I leave an inheritance for kids?
What is Per-Adult Living Standard and how is it calculated?
How are the adult equivalents for various combinations of adults and children calculated?
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Assets
8
How do you handle tax advantages of 529 plans?
Mid-year and end of year changes to your plan
How are regular assets and retirement assets accounted for in the reports?
How can I treat unrealized long term capital gains in regular assets?
How do reserve funds work?
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Retirement Accounts
12
How do I change when retirement withdrawals start?
Why are there retirement withdrawals before the date I set?
Do you account for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)?
Why is there a large negative net addition to my retirement accounts in one year and then no more assets?
How does the program help me use a Roth account?
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Glossary
16
Annuity Income
Bequest
Discretionary Spending
FICA Taxes
Fixed Spending
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Field-Specific Help
17
Annual Increase
Annual Living Standard Index
Annuities
Annuity Growth Rate
Change in Survivors' Living Standard
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Screen Guides
15
Current/Future Earnings Screen
Pension Screen
Annuities Screen
Social Security Record Screen
Special Receipts Screen
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How To's
6
How do I change marital status?
How to import past covered earnings
How to see the impact of a cut in Social Security benefits
How to Adjust or Disable Life Insurance
Modeling Term Life Insurance in Survivor Reports
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MaxiFi Premium/PRO Topics
Living Standard Monte Carlo
22
How are inflation rate and safe rates of return used in Monte Carlo Risk Analysis?
What is the MaxiFi Comfort Index?
Exploring Sequence of Return Risk
Setting up Monte Carlo
Manage Assets and Investment Strategies
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Contingency Planning
7
Contingency Planning
How do contingency settings affect my plan?
How do contingency settings work for retirement age?
How do contingency settings work for retirement account contributions?
How do contingency settings work for future earnings?
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Sample Families
2
Sample - Single Family
Sample - Married Family
Reading Sample Married Reports
7
Reading Sample Married Family--Move to New State
Reading Sample Married Family--Maximize the Base
Reading Base Plan Maximized--Fix Constraint
Reading Sample Plan--Future Special Expenses
Reading Sample Family--Roth Conversion
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General Sales and Support
Purchase and Renewal
3
Do you automatically renew my subscription?
How do I renew my subscription?
Can you tell me a little more about the Expert Review?
License Questions
2
Can others in my financial planning office use this software?
Can I use the household version to help my friends?
Security and Privacy
1
Is my data secure?
Compatibility
2
Will your software work on my iPad, tablet, phone, or other mobile device?
What operating systems (Mac, Windows, etc.) does your software work on?
Troubleshooting
1
Troubleshooting Login Problems
MaxiFi Sales and Support
Features and Benefits
7
How Does MaxiFi Differ From My Current Financial Planning Tool?
Is MaxiFi up to date with the latest tax law changes?
Can MaxiFi help me if I’m nowhere near retirement?
Can MaxiFi help me if I’m already retired?
Does MaxiFi include investment or portfolio analysis?
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PRO Topics
Organizations and Family Sharing
7
Organizations and Family Sharing Overview
Set Up an Organization
Invite Members to Join an Organization
Remove a Member from your Organization
Change access level for members of an Organization
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