Applied parameters include a source and verification date.
Disability Income Gap & Emergency Runway Calculator
Choose an employee, self-employed or platform-worker scenario. The calculator applies your income-interruption assumption, essential spending, confirmed paid leave, confirmed disability-income benefit, other confirmed support and selected liquid reserves across a deterministic monthly timeline without assessing disability, eligibility or claim approval.
MoneySense · CPF Board · MOM guidance · methodology v1.0.0 · checked 4 Sep 2026
Profile values stay unselected until you choose them. No diagnosis, health, claim, occupation-underwriting, insurer or policy data is collected.
Income gap and emergency runway
A deterministic month-by-month view of the entered scenario
The result will show confirmed resources, reserve use and any remaining shortfall for each month.
- Source date
- 2026-07-02
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-04
- Next review
- 2026-12-04
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Interest.sg uses only the amounts, timing and assumptions you enter. It does not assess health, disability definitions, eligibility, underwriting or claims; predict approval; or recommend an insurer or policy.
Educational planning scenario only. Benefits are counted only when you confirm the entered amount and timing; this does not mean a claim will be approved. No medical, eligibility, claim, insurer or policy recommendation is provided.
What this tool will show
Each result stays connected to the inputs and rules used.
- 01Confirmed replacement resources and essential spending by month
- 02Gap before reserves, reserve use and remaining reserves
- 03First reserve-exhaustion and uncovered-shortfall month
- 04Shortfall before and after the entered benefit start
- 05Coverage percentage, cumulative shortfall and income-volatility sensitivity
The workings stay visible from day one.
User inputs and defaults are clearly separated.
Scope and exclusions appear beside the result.
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