Overview
This is the duration in years that is used to calculate the potential monthly additional contributions or surplus. The default value is derived from two situations:
It represents the number of years using the earliest date listed on the "What you want" desired cash-flow schedule for Retirement, Loss of Life and Education Target-Maps.
It can also default to the duration of the project when the Fixed Duration checkbox is checked on a line item in the What you want page for Disability and Long Term Care Target-Maps.
This duration can be changed in order to model shortening the self-funding objective or increasing it to assume contributions during (or "through") a spending event. The amount of years will affect the Annual Contributions to Fund monthly dollar value.
Default Durations
Reset the duration to default (which is the earliest Start age on the What you want page) by clicking the reset circle-arrow icon. Use the reset feature anytime you change the earliest Start age on the What you want page for Retirement, Loss of Life and Education Target-Maps. Do not use the reset years feature for Long Term Disability and Long Term Care Target-Maps which use the field to illustrate duration of the event.
Long Term Disability: amount of years until the default retirement age (found on the Target-Map Preferences page).
Long Term Care: default amount of years of the long term care event (found on the Target-Map Preferences page).
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