If you were to receive $155,000 and asked to stop working for 5 years, would you agree? How about stop working for 10 years? I have written articles on retirement and income investing long enough to know that one can never solely rely on CPF for retirement. The main reason is because majority of CPF savings are often used to fund your home purchase, the OA account usually has very little left to be set aside for retirement. Hence more often than not, the minimum sum is usually what is left after property usage. Using myself as a case study, I can work out on how much CPF is to be used for housing I have paid about 720k for a property. Assuming a 2.5% interest rate averaged for my home loan, I would have paid a total of $815,000 base on my current loan quantum and a loan ......