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Do interest and dividends count agains the SWR?

02-14-2009, 07:29 AM	#1
cardude Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 316	OK, probably a stupid question but let me splain: If I have, say, 50K of interest and dividends coming from my portfolio of 1M, and I need another 50K to live on so I draw out 50K from my cash for the year, is my w/d rate 10% or only 5%? These are fictitious numbers to protect the innocent. No animals were harmed by this stupid question.

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