Repeated withdrawals from the two-pot savings component could significantly reduce retirement income. One projection estimates that an employee earning R30,000 a month could retire with about R1.01 million less after withdrawing the full allocation annually for 30 years

Two-pot retirement withdrawals are helping South Africans pay debt and living costs, but billions of rand are also being deducted in tax.

Repeated withdrawals from the two-pot savings component could significantly reduce retirement income. One projection estimates that an employee earning R30,000 a month could…

More than half a million public servants withdrew about R15 billion from their retirement savings in just seven months after the two-pot system took effect.