There seems to be keen interest in the
CPF lately. More people are now warming up to the fact that
CPF can be a good and viable scheme to save up for retirement.
CPF is a rather unique and interesting scheme in that once you put money in (either through salary deduction or voluntary contributions), you cannot simply make withdrawals from it except for housing, local uni education or for some medical expenses. It is also a scheme where you cannot put more money in even if you wanted to.
So, people are curious as to what is the maximum amount of money one can have in their
CPF at a given age. This is not a simple question to answer, as there are people who received their bequests from their relatives direct into their
CPF OA thus boosting their amounts.
Even for those without the benefits of bequests, it is still difficult to pin down the maximum amount one can accumulate in his/her
CPF at a given age because it is dependent on when one starts working and thus starts contributing to his/her
CPF.
There are however people who share their numbers online; people such as AK71, CW8888 and others.
Their
CPF numbers provided good benchmarks for those who are in the same age groups as these bloggers. But their
CPF amounts by no means represent the highest amount attainable at their age.
AK71 at 48, has accumulated a total of $845,373 in his combined
CPF accounts. Then we have a Jac Lau, who at 57, accumulated $1,044,000 in his combined
CPF accounts. Jac is what we called a
CPF millionaire.
And there is yet another category of
CPF members who attained
CPF OA millionaire status. CW8888 is one of them. He attained this status at age 62. Mind you, he retired at 60!
I did a simple modeling and concluded that it is possible for a high performer to accumulate $1M in his OA by the age of 55! I achieved this status at age 56, one year late. But better late than never.