Inflation savings danger calculator

By This Is Money

This inflation calculator will help show you how the value of your savings can be wiped out by sitting in a bank account that pays no interest and how rising prices will erode the buying power of your stock market investments or pension pot over time.

Inflation danger calculator

INFLATION
This calculator shows how inflation erodes the real value of a lump sum if you leave it in a savings account and then spend the interest - a common situation for older people who need to top up their pensions.

Lump sum
(no commas, eg. 7000)		 £
Select a period    years
Choose an inflation rate over
this period		    %

This is what this sum is worth in
real terms at the end of this period.

 £

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