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Retirement planning often emphasizes market, health, and longevity risks, but being part of a family introduces other risks: changes in family structure, such as divorce and widowhood, and financial support for adult children and aging parents…
Retiree health insurance (RHI) is increasingly rare, and even government employers – long a bastion for RHI – are cutting back. Little is known about the implications of this retrenchment, and particularly about the value that employees place on RHI…
This year’s Social Security Trustees Report has taken a major step towards offering a more realistic assessment of Social Security’s financial status. Unfortunately, the Trustees “offsetting” assumptions mask the full impact of their important changes…
CRR IN THE NEWS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Until recently, economic researchers were cheering an encouraging trend: Older Americans were staying in the labor force longer and waiting longer to claim their Social Security benefits…
THE HILL
The federal program is poised to run out of funds by 2032, triggering a 22-percent cut in benefits for tens of millions of Americans unless lawmakers act.
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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, policy, and family. The CRR gratefully acknowledges Jackson National Life Insurance Company for supporting…
RETIREMENT PLAN ACCESS
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)…
Review a comprehensive list of policy options for changing Social Security, published by the program’s actuaries…
This newsletter highlights our new database on Medicaid home-and-community-based services and new research on the value older workers place on retiree health insurance and the impact of providing financial support to aging parents. Check out these highlights and more!…