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Glossary

Disposable Income

What remains of your pay after tax — often confused with what is actually free to spend, which is a smaller number.

Strictly, disposable income is income after tax: your take-home pay. Colloquially, people use it to mean "money I can spend freely" — but between those two numbers sit rent, power, groceries, debt payments and savings commitments.

The gap between take-home pay and genuinely-free money is exactly why bank balances mislead. A live number that subtracts commitments — a safe-to-spend figure — is the honest version of what "disposable" implies.

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