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 Can I use Account 2 EPF?, To pay home deposit

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TSsyirbiznatch
post Jun 25 2016, 05:29 PM, updated 10y ago

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In my case, I do personal loan (10%) to pay for my home financing. Now, I just found out that you can actually fork out money from EPF to do this without taking personal loan vmad.gif now I have 3 loan to think of:

1. Personal Loan bangwall.gif this should be non-exist!
2. Home mortgage
3. Credit card

Lesson learnt, I am planning to take the amount from my account 2 and pay personal loan. So I have to question in mind

1. Pay home mortgage principal by EPF account 2 fund (will this lower my monthly commitment?)
2. Pay off personal loan with EPF account 2, which used as 10% home deposit (Can I do this? Well personal loan interest is more expensive than mortgage)

Advice needed hmm.gif
soultaker
post Jun 25 2016, 05:32 PM

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how much is the loan amount and interest rate? that might help to decide.
TSsyirbiznatch
post Jun 25 2016, 05:41 PM

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QUOTE(soultaker @ Jun 25 2016, 05:32 PM)
how much is the loan amount and interest rate? that might help to decide.
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Personal loan is RM40,000 with interest 6.45%. I have paid RM9,000 til today so left with RM31,000-ish that cost me almost RM450/monthly
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post Jun 25 2016, 05:55 PM

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QUOTE(syirbiznatch @ Jun 25 2016, 05:41 PM)
Personal loan is RM40,000 with interest 6.45%. I have paid RM9,000 til today so left with RM31,000-ish that cost me almost RM450/monthly
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My suggestion is use the EPF account 2 to clear off the personal loan, and use that RM450 monthly for saving. You need to cover back the money that has been taken out from EPF. EPF offering 6.xx% dividend which is quite high. Or you might want to clear CC first since the interest rate might be higher than your personal loan.
TSsyirbiznatch
post Jun 25 2016, 06:08 PM

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QUOTE(soultaker @ Jun 25 2016, 05:55 PM)
My suggestion is use the EPF account 2 to clear off the personal loan, and use that RM450 monthly for saving. You need to cover back the money that has been taken out from EPF. EPF offering 6.xx% dividend which is quite high. Or you might want to clear CC first since the interest rate might be higher than your personal loan.
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Oh it's possible? is it under Reduce/Redeem Housing Loan Balance? Can you explain a bit (sorry!)

I have read through some blogs but it is mostly on reducing mortgage principal by this method. I plan to re-finance my home mortgage to make it longer and reduce my monthly too, so this method did not apply to me.

I want to get rid of the credit card too, but there is no scheme like 'reducing card credit loan' blink.gif Thus, clearing that personal loan is my priority/


 

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