Tag: NRRI

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The Center first released its National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) in 2006.  The goal was to summarize in a single number the extent to which today’s workers would be prepared for retirement.  The Index uses the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances to compare projected replacement rates – retirement income as a percentage of…

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The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) measures the share of working-age households that is “at-risk” of being unable to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement.  The exercise involves comparing households’ projected replacement rates – retirement income as a percentage of pre-retirement income – with target rates that would allow them to maintain their…