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Salary Income not appearing in Time Machine in forum Q/A
I retired at the end of May this year and I made 4 entries for in-year salary income for the first 5 months of the year as explained below. However, none of these are being reflected in Time Machine which is instead showing $0.01 under EXTERNAL INCOME for this year. There are no error messages.
 
For clarity, for each entry, I selected "Salary" from the drop-down.
 
Entry 1 is from Jan 1 to March 31 with annualized $ amount
Entry 2 is from April 1 to May 31 (to reflect salary adjustment and ending on retirement date) with annualized $ amount.
Entries 3 and 4 are both one-time entries: one for Bonus payout and the second for Vacation pay out. In each case, I entered the full respective $ amount and entered start date = end date.
 
I have tried deleting and re-entering all the data but nothing is working and Time Machine is basically behaving as if I have to pull all that money from my savings to pay for my expenses.
 
To be clear, this function used to work and I am only recently seeing this behaviour.
 
Note: I also made a 5th entry for a partial Bonus payout that will come in 2027 and it is apppearing correctly in Time Machine.
 
Conversion to RRIF in forum Q/A

My spouse and I have different RRSP accounts and an RPP and it seems to me that the timing of the conversion or each to a RRIF or LIF would have a significant impact both in terms of mandated withdrawal rates but also to obtain the benefits of income splitting. To that end, I am trying out different scenarios but it is painful.

Fro what I can see, the only place to enter this information is in the Accounts section and this requires opening each account, hitting Edit, and then clicking to get to the 2nd page to update the RRIF year for each scenario. I don't see any way to view these changes in a single view and there is no indication of this RRIF conversion timing in any of the Time Machine reports.

Am I missing something? Also, does the Optimizer look at optimizing RRIF conversion timing?