Double & Triple check your inputs
I too was getting 100% success with FireCalc regardless of whatever scenario I requested to be run. No matter how much money I input as a desired income amount, the result stayed at 100%. So I went through all my inputs looking for errors and found a big one!
My wife will be receiving a modest pension of $7200 annually. I input this pension amount as $7200. During my deep-dive looking for something wrong I found a clue, less than a full description, that pension amounts are to be entered as a monthly value.
I reduced her pension input to $600, ran FireCalc again, and received results that logically varied. I still obtain 100% for our intended spend path, but inserting stupidly high withdrawal amounts now decrease the success rate accordingly.
I too was getting 100% success with FireCalc regardless of whatever scenario I requested to be run. No matter how much money I input as a desired income amount, the result stayed at 100%. So I went through all my inputs looking for errors and found a big one!
My wife will be receiving a modest pension of $7200 annually. I input this pension amount as $7200. During my deep-dive looking for something wrong I found a clue, less than a full description, that pension amounts are to be entered as a monthly value.
I reduced her pension input to $600, ran FireCalc again, and received results that logically varied. I still obtain 100% for our intended spend path, but inserting stupidly high withdrawal amounts now decrease the success rate accordingly.