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Dr. Straw's Retirement Game 2022.8.4

License Notice: Dr. Straw's Retirement Game Excel workbook is designed for your enjoyment as you play the what-if retirement game in real life. Copyright © 2021, Eric Straw. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. To view the GNU General Public License unhide the COPYING worksheet in Dr. Straw's Retirement Game or go to www.gnu.org/licenses/. The GNU General Public License v3.0 was chosen for Dr. Straw's Retirement Game based on guidance from choosealicense.com

Current Version (2022.8.4) Changes

This version allows you to enter stop investments, retire, start Social Security, and death ages for both spouses. This required a major reworking of the Projections worksheet.
Audited formulas. See the technical notes for details.
Updated values in the Lookups worksheet and the state tax worksheets.
Added an Instructions worksheet.
Miscellaneous tweaks, corrrections, and enhancements to improve performance, accuracy, and user experience.

Previous Versions

Dr. Straw's Retirement Game 2021.12.29

Reorganized the layout of the Setup worksheet to facilitate easy copying from one version to the next. This feature is not backward compatible with previous versions.
Reorganized the layout of the Projections worksheet for better viewing.
Audited all formulas. See the technical notes for details.
Conducted timing tests on calculations to identify and remove bottlenecks.
Updated the Setup worksheet with the new My Social Security process.
A number of other corrections, updates, and feature enhancements.

Dr. Straw's Retirement Game 2021.10.18
Dr. Straw's Retirement Game 2021.9.26