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In today’s world, workers need to save if they want to be comfortable in retirement. But there are also limits to what many people can afford. A new study finds that when U.K. workers were automatically enrolled and started contributing to a retirement savings plan, their household debt – credit cards, bank overdrafts, and other…

Too bad we couldn’t go all the way and have auto-enrollment. We were looking at the United Kingdom’s ambitious retirement saving initiative when the President announced Treasury’s MyRA proposal last month. The UK initiative shares two key attributes with the MyRA – namely, safe investments for the new saver and a separate mechanism to administer…