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Worked examples are illustrations. They use round numbers to make a mechanism clear and they deliberately leave out complications — state taxes, phase-outs, employer plan rules, your own filing status — that change the answer in real life. Do not treat an example here as a calculation of what you personally owe, can contribute, or will receive.
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Almost every figure on this site expires. Contribution limits, premiums, deductibles and income thresholds are reset annually by the tax, pensions and health authorities that publish them, so an article that was exactly right in one year is simply wrong in the next — and the prose alone gives a reader no way of telling which they are reading.
So each article records when it was published, when it was last updated, and when it was last reviewed by a person. Articles are put back into review on a schedule rather than left to rot, and the platform flags a piece as due for review once it passes its review date. When an article is updated, it is corrected in place and the update date changes — we do not quietly rewrite history, and we do not leave a stale copy at a new URL.
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