Don't have much 457 money left, under $20k. Spent it all on home improvements and a new truck when I retired 10 years ago. Not to worry, I worked 32 years in a job that was covered by one of the healthiest public employee pension systems in the country. Between my pension and S.S. I receive more than when I was working. Same for wifey, she worked for a private corporation and receives a pension check monthly, the insurance company had a matching 401k account, so she has a separate nest egg there, a county pension after 15 years, and S.S.. It required a lot of discipline and hard work to survive all the injuries and illnesses from working, and fortunately the medics found the tumor that was paralyzing me from the neck down. Now I am fine, but still grumpy. My father died when I was 10, leaving my mother hard pressed with twenty-two cents in her purse, she went to work and died at age 67 without respite. I decided that wouldn't happen again.
