Tag: employer-sponsored retirement plan

The most effective way to save for retirement is through a workplace-based retirement plan, but many workers lack access to one. To help close this gap, a number of states have adopted programs that require employers without a plan to auto-enroll their workers in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). These accounts use the Roth structure,…

Abstract About half of private sector workers in the United States do not participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan at their current job. To fill the gap, a number of state governments around the country have recently launched initiatives to automatically enroll their uncovered workers in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). This paper reports on t…