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Long-term care is the major uninsured expense for most retirees. Neither private health insurance nor Medicare covers long-term care expenses, although Medicare provides for care in a skilled nursing facility for up to 100 days following hospitalization. Long-term care insurance is available in the private market, but less than 5 percent of people purchase plans. …
Abstract This study investigates the accessibility of websites for the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) account program for people with disabilities, which is critical for ensuring individuals can fully benefit from ABLE accounts. Utilizing the Wave Evaluation Tool, Adobe Pro DC’s Accessibility Checker, and the Flesch-Kincaid (FK) readability formula, this study comprehensively analyzes 44…
The brief’s key findings are: Introduction Many who are familiar with state and local government finances are concerned that rising pension contributions could be crowding out important government services.1For example, Nation (2017) finds that rising expenditures on pension benefits in California crowd out spending on higher education and social services. Others, like Eide (2015), believe payments towards…
CRR IN THE NEWS
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Families face soaring costs and mounting pressures in taking care of their loved ones. ‘I never feel truly free.’
PBS NEWSHOUR
Seventy million Americans receive Social Security benefits. But the program is paying out more than it’s taking in.
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This initiative identifies the major risks that people face as they approach retirement, seeks to understand their perceptions of those risks, measures the potential harm from the risks, and evaluates ways to mitigate them. These risks include: longevity, inflation, health, market, family, and policy. The CRR gratefully acknowledges Jackson National Life Insurance Company for supporting…
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The main reason that U.S. workers end up with inadequate retirement savings is that, at any given time, only about half of workers ages 25-64 are participating in an employer-sponsored pension (see Figure 1)…
Our summer newsletter features new research on Millennials’ retirement prospects, government imposter scams, and the WA Cares long-term care program. It also features videos and summaries from the RDRC meeting…
