Using IB Money to Help Parents With Retirement

Hi everyone - I’m about to start my FT role in a few months and I’ve been thinking about ways that I could potentially help my parents out with retirement. We never had a lot of money growing up, and they both wholly supported me throughout college even though it was hard for them at times(helped with groceries/rent when my paychecks weren’t enough). I want to give back to them and make sure they live the rest of their lives happy.

The main way I was thinking about doing this is through contributing towards their retirement. I don’t think they’ve been able to contribute a lot to their retirement so this would be huge for them. As I think they assume they will have to work the rest of their lives. Both are 54 right now. What are my options? What can I do? Has anyone else done something like this for their parents? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 
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It’s definitely a nice thing to do. My only .02c would be to make sure you’re stable enough first. If your parents are 54, they have ~10 years till retirement? If you plan to stay in the industry, I might wait till you hit associate and start pulling in a bit more money. In year 1, you could really stretch yourself to give them $25k. In year 4, you could probably do that without missing it

 

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