National Pension Scheme: If your wife does not have to depend on anyone for money in the future, then you can arrange for regular income for her. You can open a New Pension System (NPS) account in the name of your wife. The NPS account will give a lump sum amount to your wife at the age of 60. Apart from this, you will get the benefit of pension every month. This will be the wife’s regular income. The biggest benefit of NPS Account is that you can decide yourself how much pension you want every month. Your wife will not have any shortage of money at the age of 60.
Open an NPS account in the name of your wife
You can open a New Pension System (National Pension Scheme) account in the name of your wife. You have the option of depositing money every month or year as per your convenience. You can open an NPS account in the name of your wife with just Rs 1,000. The NPS account matures at the age of 60. Under the new rules, if you wish, you can continue running the NPS account till your wife turns 65.
A monthly investment of ₹5000 will create a fund of ₹1.14 crore
Understand this with an example- Your wife is 30 years old and you invest Rs 5000 every month in her NPS account. If she gets 10 percent annual return on the investment, then at the age of 60, she will have a total of Rs 1.12 crore in her account. She will get around Rs 45 lakh out of this. Apart from this, she will start getting pension of around Rs 45,000 every month. She will keep getting this pension for life.
How much will be the lump sum amount and how much pension
Age- 30 years Total investment period- 30 years Monthly contribution- Rs 5,000 Estimated return on investment- 10% Total pension fund- Rs 1,11,98,471 can be withdrawn on maturity Rs 44,79,388 Amount to buy annuity plan. Rs 67,19,083 Estimated annuity rate 8% Monthly pension- Rs 44,793
Fund manager does account management
NPS is the Central Government’s Social Security Scheme. The money you invest in this scheme is managed by professional fund managers. The Central Government gives this responsibility to these professional fund managers. In such a situation, your investment in NPS is completely safe. However, the return on the money you invest under this scheme is not guaranteed. According to financial planners, NPS has given an average return of 10 to 11 percent annually since its inception.
Additional tax exemption is available
National Pension System (NPS) also offers tax benefits such as tax exemption up to Rs 2 lakh and tax exemption on withdrawal of 60% of the amount. NPS is a scheme in which after the limit of Rs 1.5 lakh is exhausted, tax exemption is also available on additional investment of Rs 50 thousand. Due to this extra exemption, you can save up to Rs 2 lakh tax every year in NPS.
