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Can I enter a paycheck END DATE to budget for retirement? (3 Merged Votes)

Quicken 2017 - Retiring and a few months and I would like to enter an END DATE for our final paychecks so I can budget through the end of the year. I want to do this in the Income Reminders and Bills to get accurate dollars not via Planning and investing if possible.Using Quicken for 12+ years and have never found a way to do this when changing jobs either.
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So, I suspect that you'll have to go to Planning to set a retirement date. RE: job changes, you'll just have to adjust manually the scheduled transaction.
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That is a great question and Welcome to the Community!
Unfortunately, the paycheck reminders do not currently have the ability to set an end date but I think that is a great idea and would be a valuable addition to the program so I have changed your question to an "Idea" post instead.
The Idea posts can be voted on by other members of the Community and are reviewed directly by the Development teams for input on what future functions or features are being requested. The more votes an Idea receives, the higher it is prioritized by Development for possible implementation.
Thank you,
Sarah
Congratulations by the way.
Unless your paycheck includes 401k contributions (*); I believe you can use a plain split transaction for your paycheck, which will give you control over the paycheck end date.
To see how the plain split transaction should look, you can either:
- hold down CTRL+SHIFT while opening a paycheck transaction in its account
register or
- create a report that includes a paycheck, with the Customize option "Show splits" checked.
[ (*) You can even create a plain split transaction that includes the correct split lines for 401k contributions, but I think that transaction will not update the "Tax Impact of 401(k) Accounts" hidden Quicken account ... which has an impact on Tax reports. If you are using a Quicken Paycheck that has 401k contributions, you can check the Tax Schedule or Tax Summary report to see the effect of the "Tax Impact of 401(k) Accounts" account.]
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You're not the only one who's looking for END DATE support on paychecks.
Teachers could use this, too, when they're out on summer break without a paycheck coming in.
https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7721794/can-i-enter-a-paycheck-end-date-to-budget-for-retirement
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Retired "Certified Information Systems Auditor" & Bank Audit VP
Thank you for taking the time to visit the Community to post your question, although I apologize that this feature isn't currently offered.
I have moved your post to the ongoing Idea thread to add this ability.
Be sure to navigate to the top of this post and click the up arrow to add your vote!
Ideas are reviewed by our development team to see what people would like to be available in the future.
Thank you,
-Quicken Tyka
This seems like a no-brainer to me. There are other solid use cases for this listed above too. Contract work, retirement, pay raises with a future effective date, etc.