The familiar three-to-six months answer is a starting point, not a conclusion. The right reserve depends on how stable your income is, how quickly you could replace it, and how much of your spending is genuinely fixed.

The catch-up contribution rules now treat savers in their early sixties differently from everyone else, and the difference is large…
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