To get an idea of your benefits under this Pension Plan, email the Plan Office with a request for an estimate of the benefit you have already earned. You can visit our Pension Walkthrough pages showing how a pension is calculated. With this information, you can estimate your income in retirement from sources other than personal investments and savings. Step B - Goals and Assumptions presents another difficulty. Be careful, unrealistic assumptions will usually yield wacky results.
Most planners use conservative assumptions based on long-term historical rates.
These assumptions work O.K. for long-range planning, but they are nearly worthless for time horizons of under 5 years. The longer the period which is being estimated, the more accurate these assumptions can be expected to turn out. If your estimates produce unrealistic results, go back and review your assumptions. Step C - Make a Plan requires a lot of number crunching. It is possible to work out rough estimates with pencil and paper.